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Zaykabar defies order on farmland

By Noe Noe Aung CONSTRUCTION company Zaykabar last week defied government instructions to stop destroying embankments on farmland at the centre of an ownership dispute in Mingalardon township, one day after farmers were prevented from ploughing the fields. In a dispute that dates back to early 2010, farmers in Shwenanthar village allege Zaykabar tricked them into giving up land tenure rights to about 800 acres that the company plans to use to build an industrial zone. Zaykabar restarted bulldozing the farmland on the evening of May 10. And they continued today as well. They have about 30 security guards around the farms so the farmers cant do anything, an assistant of U Nay Myo Wai, a politician who has been assisting farmers embroiled in the dispute with Zaykabar, told The Myanmar Times on May 11. We told the village administrative office and also the Mingaladon township office about it. The farmers are planning to plough their land because Zaykabar didnt obey the authorised person, he added. U Tun Tun Oo, an administrative official from Shwenanthar village, said Zaykabar had been instructed to stop work but ignored the order. Officials gave two official notices to Zaykabar to stop implementing Industrial Zone 4. But they didnt obey them, he said. Now U Nyein Htwe, the authorised person for Mingalardon township, has gone to Nay Pyi Taw and I dont have the authority to stop [Zaykabar], U Tun Tun Oo said. I have to wait for the order from senior officials. I have already reported this case to the township administrative office. More page 4

Farmers from Shwenanthar village in Mingalardon township hold a meeting on May 10 before attempting to plough fields at the centre of an ownership dispute with Zaykabar company. Pic: Ko Taik

Car prices dive after rule change

Buyers abandon car market after ministry announces partial liberalisation of vehicle import regulations
By Aye Thidar Kyaw and Aung Kyi RECENT changes to car import rules have sent prices tumbling, with some popular models losing more than 50 percent of their value almost overnight. The changes allow Myanmar nationals holding a US dollar account at selected government and private banks to import a car less than five years old without a permit or providing export credits. Minister for Commerce U Win Myint announced the changes at a meeting of the Car Import Supervisory Committee at the Ministry of Commerce on May 7. State media quoted him as saying that the ministry was taking step-by-step measures to enable the public to buy cars freely from car showrooms or through importation. The minister said that the government wanted Myanmars car-to-population ratio which is among the lowest in the world to double from seven vehicles per 1000 people but did not give a timeframe for the increase. The May 8 report in the New Light of Myanmar did not provide information on engine size limits or the tax that would be charged on the vehicles but it did state that importers would be required to deposit double the cost, insurance and freight (CIF) value of the vehicle to be imported in their account. Since we started this substitution program, we intended [to] gradually change the plan to allow people to buy freely, and weve done so in a step-by-step way, U Win Myint told reporters in Nay Pyi Taw on May 7. However, the suddenness of the changes and their impact on the market have caused significant losses for businesses and individuals who imported vehicles during the past six months. Car traders told The Myanmar Times last week that rumours had been circulating since May 2 about impending changes to import rules that would affect a car import substitution program the government launched in September, ostensibly to remove unsafe and inefficient older vehicles from the roads. The program allowed holders of import permits, obtained by handing in an over-age vehicle, to import a car made between 1995 and 2006, with some extra rules for four-wheel-drive vehicles. It also tapped huge latent demand for newer-model cars, with prices for import permits hitting a high of about K15 million at the end of April. However, these had fallen to as low as K7-8 million late last week, with buyers almost non-existent, brokers at the Hantharwaddy car trading zone in Yangon said. More page 4

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Sad memories of conflict linger on

the country, including Bamar, Chin, Kachin, Kayin, Shan, Mon, Dawei and Rakhine. Under these NCOs we learned military tactics how to act, behave and fight on battlefields in areas of the country where insurgents were active. Our section leaders were the best NCOs we met; they were well disciplined and also had much battlefield experience. We were safe serving under their command and every battle in which we were engaged we felt in control. A f t e r three years s e r v i c e in that battalion, I was posted back to a unit in Yangon and attended evening c l a s s e s at Yangon University a year later. One day our lecturer, a socialist cadre from the Department of Philos-ophy, mentioned his weekend visit to a little town in the Ayeyar-wady delta where he had attended a distressing memorial ceremony for soldiers who had fallen in a recent battle the Theinlar area in a flooded paddy field, a few hundred metres away from a rivulet in Bogale township. The skirmish saw our company and the insurgents exchange fire throughout the morning until the company commander was riddled with bullets and died from blood loss. The section commander managed the battle well but while fighting in the open, waterlogged field he was hit and died on the spot. Saw Myat Moe was pinned and took up whatever weapons were within his reach to fire against the enemys stronghold on the other side of that paddy field. Eventually, though, he was also hit by the enemy. From a naval boat on the nearby watercourse, the military commander of the he had been her only son. She slumped to the ground, robbed of her senses by this brutal battle that had taken two of her close relatives. I had found Corporal Tin Maung to be a silent person and a dedicated soldier. He spoke only when giving orders and these were always clear and straight. But his military career ended prematurely in a fight against his own uncle, who also lost his life. Like Saw Myat Moe, both were ethnic Karen. While Saw Myat Moes death had come as a shock, what my sergeant major told me next broke my heart. After the battle, a package of letters arrived for soldiers at the front line. After giving out the letters to the other soldiers there was one remaining, addressed to Saw Myat Moe. With the agreement of the other soldiers, the sergeant major read it out at the evening roll call. It was neither from Saw Myat Moes family nor friends but a love letter, from a girl to w h o m he had proposed before leaving for the frontline. She had accepted his offer of marriage. At their first meeting there was a misunderstanding over some personal matters and the young woman had rebuffed his proposal. Later, she found out the truth and sent the letter stating that everything was fine and she agreed to marry. She said in the letter that she would be waiting for him once he returned from the frontline. All the soldiers at the roll call shed tears when they heard her words being read out loud. The sergeant major added that this sort of experience, while it might sound like a movie or a fiction novel, was not necessarily unique. A soldiers duty is to potentially give up his life on the battlefield and in the process leave behind his loved ones. They say that everything is fair in love and war. That may be true while waging a war against

By Min Aung IT was a rainy day in the mid 1960s when I joined the army as a private. On that very day, a young man named Saw Myat Moe also enlisted at the army recruiting centre on Pyay Road. Saw Myat Moe was from Hmawbi. We had both just passed high school but decided to pursue a military career rather than continue on to higher education. Many young people in our country joined the army for different reasons. Saw Myat Moe and I shared a desire to experience the adventure of a soldiers life and we quickly became friends. The two of us believed and hoped that once all the insurgencies in the country had been ended that peace would return and everybody could calmly go about their lives. We knew little about politics. In those days almost everyone believed that only socialist democracy could ensure the country would be free from neo-colonialism and capitalists; the leaders hoped that the Burmese Way to Socialism was the right political path for the country to follow. The young politicians who had strived for independence aimed to introduce socialism once the country was freed from colonialism. But like most countries that gained independence around that time, we started by practising democracy. The local populace farmers and workers quickly became poorer and much of the countrys wealth ended up in the hands of foreigners. As a consequence, the countrys military leaders took power with a plan to build the country through socialist thoughts and ideas that were different from the socialist systems employed in other countries. Most of the terms used were based on the Buddhist philosophy. While it was to end in failure in 1988, at the time we could see no other option to this approach. After enlisting, we were sent to the military training depot at Maymyo (now Pyin Oo Lwin) together with other recruits. We underwent intense basic and advanced training for six months. After the training, Saw Myat Moe and I were posted to a light infantry battalion. There we were assigned to the same company and platoon. In our platoon there were noncommissioned officers (NCOs) representing various parts of

last to take place in the delta region. This was sometime in the mid-1970s. Not long after, our battalion sergeant major visited and stayed at my barracks. I asked him about that last battle in the delta. He said that it was our company that had fought and among the fallen soldiers was the company commander, my dear friend Saw Myat Moe. The platoon engaged a Karen insurgent group and a severe battle took place in the

region w a t c h e d the battle unfold though his binoculars and saw the efforts of Saw Myat Moe. My friend was awarded the Thura medal the following Independence Day. When the fighting concluded, reinforcing units cleared the battleground and found the bodies of the three soldiers and also several insurgents. All corpses were taken to Bogale so that funeral services could take place. When the bodies were laid at the town for the funeral, an old Karen woman arrived and wept by the body of her brother, the Karen insurgent leader Chit Lay Maung. Later, the same old lady proceeded to the body of the section leader, Corporal Tin Maung, and cried till she ran out of breath, declaring that

a foreign invader but I believe conflict among our own people is a different matter. The good men lost on both sides were often of our own race and, on occasion, our relatives. The most serious consequence of the conflict has been the disintegration of unity within the country and growing hatred among our own people. The tears, blood, sweat, cries and wounds of the past 60 years have been passed from generation to generation and remain in our thoughts and memories. Please permit me to express this in relation to the teachings of the Buddha. The Buddha was very clear on politics, war and peace. It is well known that Buddhism advocates and preaches non-violence and peace as its universal message and does not approve of any kind of violence or destruction of life. According to Buddhist teachings, nothing can be called a just war; it is a false term coined and used to justify and excuse hatred, cruelty and violence. How would one decide if a war is just or unjust anyway? In the history of war, mighty victors were just and the weak and defeated were unjust. Buddhism does not accept this concept. Lord Buddha not only taught non-violence and peace but he even went to the battlefield and intervened personally to prevent a war between the Sakyas and the Koliyas, who were prepared to fight over ownership of the waters of the Rohini. His words once prevented King Ajatasuttu from attacking the kingdom of the Vajjis. Today, our country is entering a new era, one that promises a better life for all citizens without discrimination based on ethnicity. Development is being encouraged in all sectors and regions of the country. There is much to be optimistic about but for me, a soldier, the sad memories of our decades-old conflict linger on. I would like to pay my solemn respects to my lost friend, Thura Saw Myat Moe, and all the other fallen soldiers including those who were once our foes and request that, if we are really changing to democracy and a free, fair and civilised society, we put an end to civil war once and for all. (Min Aung was a soldier for 13 years before joining the police force, where he served 17 years with the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control.)

Positive steps for peace in Kachin but IDPs need more

By Pann Pyo Lat AFTER 10 months of conflict, the UN has finally reached an agreement with the government to assist internally displaced people in camps in Kachin Independence Organisation-controlled areas. This news will no doubt have been greeted with relief by organisations seeking to help IDPs, as well as the affected people themselves. However, reaching out to all IDPs will remain a challenge due to limited funding. As the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Myanmar told The Myanmar Times recently, another US$12 million is needed to meet the needs of an estimated 60,000 people in Kachin State to February 2013. Those who have fled the conflict and are living in makeshift camps even in government-controlled areas are being forced to survive without access to the most basic of services. Families live in the same single room and supplies of medicines are limited. With the monsoon season quickly approaching in Kachin State, construction of sh elter s, tempor ar y schools and child-friendly spaces should have been completed before the end of April. Reaching out to camps in Kachin Independence Organisation-controlled areas will be difficult once the rains come. In addition, child protection, psychosocial support and livelihood programs need to be implemented. Education services are also required, as most schoolage children in the camps have already missed the 2011-12 academic year and 2012-13 begins in early June. Funding for these activities is currently insufficient and the needs will only increase the longer the conflict continues: constructing essential buildings and delivering basic services to 60,000 people will no doubt prove costly. Thus, finding alternative solutions will be critical for the humanitarian situation in Kachin State. How about a simple method of reducing the IDP population by finding a durable solution to their plight? The action I propose will kill two birds with one stone. Lets ask a question: do IDPs want to stay in these camps? The answer is clearly no. There are no IDPs who would rather be in a makeshift camp than their own homes, yet the IDP population continues to rise. Withdrawing all Tatmadaw soldiers from areas that were under KIO control before the conflict began in June would not only represent a durable solution to the IDP issue, it would also show the governments commitment to reaching a ceasefire. It would potentially put both sides on the path to the eternal peace that the government has so regularly said it desires. Members of the KIO peace delegation have clearly stated that the withdrawal of all Tatmadaw soldiers from KIO territory is the very first step to reaching a ceasefire with the government. Doing so would be strategically, economically, socially, and culturally beneficial for all IDPs, donors, and leaders from both sides. And this positive step would be a major breakthrough for efforts national reconciliation. (Pann Pyo Lat is a CAUX peace scholar alumna (2007) and has been working with displaced people in Kachin State since June 2011.)

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DKBA defiant over drug claims

By Ei Ei Toe Lwin in Myawaddy A DEMOCRATIC Karen Buddhist Army faction leader accused by Thai authorities of drug trafficking last week denied the allegations and said he would allow drug enforcement teams from Myanmar and Thailand to undertake a joint investigation in the groups territory. But General Saw Lah Bwe, also known as Bo Na Kham Mwe (General Moustache), ruled out voluntarily going to Thailand to face the allegations, which have increased tension along the border and resulted in a number of border crossings being shut down. I am a Myanmar citizen so it is impossible to do an inquiry in Thailand. In our country, we have a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and there is also one in Thailand. So, it can come and investigate me in Myanmar in cooperation with Myanmar DEA. If the [Thai government] accepts it, well continue to discuss the time and place, General Saw Lah Bwe said at a press conference on May 10 at Sone See Yar village in Kayin States Myawaddy township. The press conference was attended by many journalists from Myanmar, Thai and international media outlets. It was held to respond to allegations made by Thai Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobumrung that General Saw Lar Bwe, patron of the Kloh Htoo Bor sub-group of the DKBA, was a drug lord. On May 8, news agency AFP reported that Thailand had asked authorities in Myanmar to arrest General Saw Lar Bwe, after he allegedly issued a threat to Thais living in bordering Tak province in response to his inclusion on a list of 25 top narcotics traders released on April 20. The Office of Narcotic Control Board (ONCB), which has offered a one million baht reward ($32,000) for General Saw Lar Bwe without giving details of the charges against him, has now asked Myanmars chief of police to arrest the rebel fighter, Mr Chalerm said on May 8. I am ready to travel [to Myanmar] to discuss this issue and its coordination because this issue [drugs] has caused so much suffering to Thais, Mr Chalerm told reporters. General Saw Lah Bwe refuted the allegations and accused Thailand of spreading false information. Ive done nothing and I also havent forced our ethnic [Kayin people] and my soldiers to deal drugs. So I do not understand why they accused me. I think they have other reasons for making this announcement, he said. The Thai governments allegations date back to 2003 when its officers uncovered a large stash of illicit drugs along the Thai border near the DKBA camp at Waw Lae. But General Saw Lah Bwe said this was a fabrication designed to hurt the prestige of Myanmar and the Kayin people as well as relations between the DKBA and the government. We want to know why they are doing this now after nine years, he said. We are peace building with the Myanmar government. We are living peacefully now. So I want to ask [Thailand], do they want to damage our peaceful relations with the government? The government and DKBA signed a ceasefire agreement in November 2011. Under a subsequent agreement signed in December, the DKBA agreed to cooperate with the government on drug eradication activities. The allegations have heightened tension along the border and both the DKBA and Thai authorities have closed some border crossings in Myawaddy township. The DKBA said it was also considering closing the main bridge in Myawaddy, one of Myanmars most important border crossing points. We planned to close it. We havent yet but we will have no choice if the Thai government takes military action, said Colonel San Aung, head of the DKBAs Intelligence Bureau. He said the group hoped to avoid an outbreak of violence over the issue. We would like to solve this accusation in a just and fair manner from our side. In doing so, we invite any official from any Drug Enforcement Administration [body] to come and inspect any areas under our control. DKBA officials also said they wanted the Myanmar government to publicly defend them against the drug-trafficking allegations. If we are a union and government really wants to get unity, they should defend us. Now the Thai government is talking about this case through the media. Myanmar has state media why are they silent? Colonel San Aung said. District officials personally told me not to worry about it but we want to get an official guarantee from the Myanmar

General Saw Hla Bwe (left), head of the Kloh Htoo Bor faction of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, attends a press conference near Myawaddy last week. Pic: Boothee government. He said the DKBA would wait for a response from Thailand. They announced this issue through their media so weve expressed our desire through the media, said Colonel San Aung. If they want to solve this by military means, we must respond in kind.

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Car prices dive after rule change

The impact on used car prices was even greater. Prices for almost all makes and models fell K5 million to K10 million. Among the hardest hit were Myanmar Mini Wagons, which dropped about 55 percent to just K6 million, and Cherry QQ3s, which fell to K8 million, down from K15 million. Models from the early 1990s fell 40pc, from K20 million to about K12 million, brokers said, adding that prices remained unstable and were likely to fall further. Prices are plunging and everybody just wants to sell. But because of the rumours nobody wants to buy, said U Kyaw Nyunt, a trader who has worked at Hantharwaddy for about 30 years. U Kyaw Nyunt said popular 2006-model Honda Insight sedans have fallen to K23 million from K28.5 million in a few days. As far as I see, prices will fall by more than half, he said. Adding further confusion is the lack of detail over the new import rules, including which vehicles are eligible for import. A senior Ministry of Commerce official said at a press conference in Nay Pyi Taw on May 7 that only cars with a 1350-cubiccentimetre (cc) engine or smaller would be made available for import. Cars of 2007 models or later with 1350cc engine power or lower will be allowed and taxed with a CIF value of US$5000, a ministry official told MRTV-4. But reports about the May 7 meeting published in state newspapers made no mention of engine size limits. U Ko Ko, who is a businessman and car trader, said he imported From page 1 We have no plan to change the import permit requirement for older vehicles, said Deputy Commerce Minister Dr Pwint San. Newer vehicles are likely to cost less than older models because buyers will not have to have an import permit so traders expect prices for older models to continue to fall. Until May 3, about 44,500 cars and 1260 buses had been substituted to the Directorate of Transport Administration, with the Ministry of Commerce giving out permits for 39,800 cars and 749 buses. A separate import program open to Myanmar working abroad and domestic companies with foreign currency accounts has seen 4400 vehicles imported. No one is buying overseas workers permits to import 2007model and above cars. If you want to buy one you can get it for K500,000 immediately, said U Tee Lone, a car broker based in Tarmwe township. While car owners and importers were left fuming over the snap changes to import rules, prospective car buyers welcomed the likelihood of more affordable vehicles. It is good to hear news that every citizen will be allowed to import a car. As a result, people who dont have a lot of money will still be able to own a car, said U Zaw Moe, a grocery store owner in Dagon Myothit township. Before, we couldnt even get a good running condition saloon car for K10 million even a 1985 or 86 model Nissan Super Saloon not included in the substitution program was more than K10 million.

Brokers at the Hantharwaddy trading zone last week. Pic: Yadanar four vehicles last month to sell and was now expecting to lose a lot of money. He said the drop in prices had also affected import service companies and newly opened showrooms, which started slashing their prices in line with the market last week. We thought this program would gradually be phased out and we could never have guessed that it would change so fast, he said, adding, I heard our president got the idea when he visited Japan [in April]. Sakura Auto Services manager Ko Aung Naing Htun said service companies holding many permits were likely to find themselves in financial difficulty. But now customers are also down; they will surely want to buy newer model cars than those eligible under the car substitution program, he said. Car showrooms will likely have to sell thousands of vehicles imported under the car substitution program at a loss. MRTV-4 reported on May 9 that the Ministry of Commerce had approved 67 applications to set up car sales centres in Yangon, Mandalay and Nay Pyi Taw and these centres had been granted permission to import 13,735 vehicles made between 1996 and 2006. To buy a car at the centres, buyers need to bring an import permit secured under the substitution program. Of the 13,735 cars, 2273 units have already arrived at the showrooms, with the remainder expected to arrive soon. A Ministry of Commerce official said cars made between 1996 and 2006 could still only be imported with a permit and that the over-age substitution program would continue for vehicles with la, tha and ah licence plate prefixes.

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Earlier this month the Shwenanthar farmers announced their intention to begin farming the disputed land and on May 10 about 200 farmers gathered beside fields owned by U Kyaw Myint, a local farmer. In an adjoining field, also owned by U Kyaw Myint, a manager from Zaykabar and more than 30 security guards with heavy machines started destroying the embankments on the disputed land. However, a potentially nasty clash was avoided when township officials arrived and persuaded both the farmers and Zaykabar to desist. This farm is owned by U Kyaw Myint but the authorities have not yet given permission for contract farming [in this field] for 2012-13. So I want you to wait for contract farming to be officially approved. Farmers still have time to apply to farm these lands. And as soon as you have the contract to farm

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the land, you can plough, U Nyein Htwe, the official from Mingaladon township general administrative office, said on May 10. We will stop [Zaykabar] as well. These lands are still in the middle of argument. I have responsibility to stop the company destroying the farmland, he said. The Shwenanthar farmers said afterwards that they were determined to prepare fields for the monsoon paddy season and would apply to the authorities for permission. Its time to farm, the rain will come soon. I farmed on this land for about 20 years until 2010. I knew these lands were not owned by Zaykabar, they are still farmland. So we are going to farm our land, said U Kyaw Sein, who owns about 50 acres in Shwenanthar. The dispute dates back to February 2010, when the company acquired 845 acres from 71 households with the help of two government officials in the village. About

100 acres remain in the hands of residents. As The Myanmar Times reported in February, some of the farmers received K300,000 each in compensation but said that they were tricked into accepting the money by the two officials. U Nay Myo Wai, the head of the Peace and Diversity Party who has assisted the farmers throughout the dispute, said the farmers were still the official owners of the land. I have agreed to obey the request of the authorities to stop the farming because I want to know whether we are really living with the rule of law, he said. Three weeks ago, we sent a letter to [Department of Human Settlement and Housing Development] asking whether Zaykabar had a permit from the government to establish an industrial zone here. The assistant director of DHSHD, Daw Khin May Aye, responded on May 3 that DHSHD has not given any permission to Zaykabar to

build an industrial zone on the land in Shwenanthar village. So this is still farmland, he said. The Zaykabar official, U Myint Zaw, declined to comment when approached by The Myanmar Times on the morning of May 10. But at a press conference in February, officials from Zaykabar, which is owned by U Khin Shwe, an Amyotha Hluttaw representative, denied the farmers allegations. The companys general manager, Daw Mi Mi Thein Tan, told reporters on February 14 that the industrial zone project had government support. After March 2011 we continued our project with the permission of the government. And we got that permission through the government procedure, Daw Mi Mi Thein Tan said. Another company official said the project had the backing of the regional government and also involved the Ministry of Construction and DHSHD.

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President reshuffles peace team

PRESIDENT U Thein Sein has taken charge of peace talks with armed ethnic groups for the first time, his office has said, in a new push to end bloody fighting that has marred recent reforms. U Thein Sein was named as chairman of the government negotiating team, in an overhaul that removed elements of the previous delegation seen as obstacles to a deal with fighters in Kachin State in the countrys far north. An order from the presidents office, dated May 3 but sent to AFP on May 9, said the high-level committee would work in a leading role during discussions with ethnic armed groups. The former general, whose exact involvement in the new negotiations was not specified, met leaders of a major ethnic minority group, the Karen National Union (KNU), for the first time in April. Myanmar has signed tentative ceasefire deals with a number of rebel groups in recent months as it seeks to draw a line under civil conflicts that have racked parts of the country since independence in 1948. But fighting in Kachin State, where a 17-year ceasefire broke down last June, has continued to rage, forcing tens of thousands of civilians from their homes. The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has previously said it lacks confidence in government negotiators and accused the military of planning a large-scale offensive against their stronghold near the border with China. In January U Thein Seins government said it had told the military to halt all offensives in ethnic minority conflict zones, but violence in Kachin State continued. Military chief Vice Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has been included in the high-level delegation for the first time. The reshuffle also created a 52-member working committee, led by Vice President Dr Sai Mauk Kham, that will be responsible for initial talks with the rebels. This group excludes U Aung Thaung, an MP with the ruling army-backed party and former industry minister who was previously in charge of talks with the Kachin. He is not a part of new team because of a health condition, a government official said. The working committee will include Railway Minister U Aung Min, seen as a pivotal figure in the other ceasefires, including with the KNU which has waged the countrys longest-running insurgency. AFP

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle shakes hands with Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann prior to talks at the foreign ministry in Berlin on May 8. Pic: AFP

Speaker, hluttaw representatives visit foreign parliaments over recess

By Nan Tin Htwe and Thomas Kean THREE groups of MPs have used the parliamentary recess to participate in trips to foreign parliaments. Thura U Shwe Mann led a delegation, including two other parliamentarians and a dozen officials, to the European parliament on May 10, news agency AFP reported. The group was to meet EU president Herman Van Rompuy and the blocs foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton. The president of the parliament, Martin Schulz, said the talks served to recognise reforms carried out so far in the longisolated nation. The recent impressive democratic opening of the country gives us much hope and optimism, Mr Schulz said in a statement. Seven hluttaw representatives travelled to Germany on May 5 to visit the countrys parliament at the invitation of a nongovernment organisation, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, a local news journal reported. Pyithu Khit reported on May 9 that Dr Aye Maung from the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party, U Min Oo and Dr Hla Myat Thway from the National League for Democracy, U Sai Aik Paung from the Shan Nationalities Democratic Party and U Win Oo, U Win Than and U Aye Mauk from the Union Solidarity and Development Party visited Germany for the trip. The group is scheduled to return to Myanmar on May 12. The Friedrich Naumann Foundation has close ties with the Free Democratic Party, a member of Germanys coalition government. Meanwhile, three newly elected NLD representatives met Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Foreign Minister Bob Carr in Canberra last week as part of a study tour. U Phyo Min Thein, Daw Sandar Min and U Phyo Zayar Thaw were selected by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to take part in the trip, which included a workshop at the University of Sydney and was supported by the Australian Labor Party (ALP). On May 11, Daw Sandar Min and U Phyo Zayar Thaw also addressed a forum at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra in which they called for more international support and training for Myanmars parliamentarians. We are very grateful of the opportunity to study the art of politics and democracy from countries like Australia, which we consider to be the most robust democratic nation in the region. Although this trip to Australia is a short program we want to stress that this is really a great opportunity for us, Daw Sandar Min, who was released from prison in 2011 after serving fourand-a-half years of a 65year sentence for her part in the 2007 protests, was quoted as saying in an ANU press release. We also hope that the ALP can help our party and the peoples of Myanmar by sharing their experiences and would like their specialist advice to achieve a truly rich and genuine democracy in our country.

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Room rate dispute harming industry

By Yu Yu Maw THE tourism industrys pricing war which has operators and hoteliers at loggerheads over soaring hotel room rates is damaging the industrys reputation, industry experts say. The influx of foreign visitors over the past six months not only tourists but also foreign dignitaries and businesspeople has exacerbated a shortage in quality accommodation. This shortage is most acute in Yangon, which has only a handful of internationalstandard hotels, but is an issue at all major tourist destinations. While many foreign and local businesses are exploring opportunities to invest in hotels, new projects are not expected to be up and running for several years. In response to the shortage, mid-range and high-end hotels have increased room rates by as much as 300 percent, refusing to prenegotiate rates with agents for package travellers and failing to honour contracts with agents, industry sources say. U Khin Maung Yin, a director of the Myanmar Tourism Board, told The Myanmar Times that pricing issues were causing headaches for agents and their clients and damaging the countrys reputation as a tourism destination. He said the board had been trying to broker a solution between hoteliers and agents but could not force hotels to change their policy. However, stakeholders were unable to reach an agreement at an April 28 industry meeting. We dont have the authority to fix prices not even the Ministry [of Hotels and Tourism] can do that. But this issue is not good for the tourism industry and needs to be resolved soon, said U Khin Maung Yin, who is also managing director of Andaman Resort. We have already developed a reputation as being the most expensive travel destination in Southeast Asia. Everyone in this tourism industry should think about whether we want this reputation or whether we can adjust prices so they are comparable with neighbouring countries. U Tin Tun Aung, secretary of the Union of Myanmar Travel Association (UMTA) and owner of Thingazar Travel and Tours, said travel agents were increasingly nervous about signing contracts with hotels because they were unsure whether they would be honoured. Normally, we sign a contract with the hotel for every package. But now they are changing the contract price, increasing it by two or three times, he said. We confirm the price with the clients four months before the visit but now hoteliers are raising room charges immediately before the visit. How can we ask the clients to pay more in this situation? We have no idea if a room that is $70 will suddenly become $250 when our client arrives. Daw Kaythi Naing, managing director of Yuzana Garden Hotel, said it was widely known that some hotels were breaking contracts with agents. Some hotels are refusing to agree rates for packages. Thats why we are seeing conflict between hotels and tour operators. She said operating costs had increased but not enough to justify large increases. If the demand continues to rise prices will keep going up. We also increased prices about 50pc over the past 12 months but on the other

Traders Hotel in Yangon. Pic: Juliet Shwe Gaung hands, we also did major renovations and increased the salaries of our staff. But U Kyaw Htun, secretary of the Myanmar Hoteliers Association (MHA), said travel agents had benefited during the tourism industrys lean years when they had the upper hand in negotiating room rates for packages. He said the rate increases were the result of a lack of investment in new hotels over the past decade and sudden growth in demand. When we look back at the last 10 years for the tourism industry, it was not in a very good situation most of the time. Hotels did not have full rooms. During this time, hoteliers and tour operators adjusted the charges and sometimes we gave them discounts. Shareholders dont get much profit from their hotel investment. So I think we should not blame either side for what is happening now, he said. Daw Lwin Mar Aung, public relations manager from Traders Hotel, said the increases were just business. We cant have constant room rates, it will change depending on demand, so we dont make contracts with every [tourism] agency.

We are also giving more priority to online booking, she said. Agents also seem to think that we dont want to sell bookings to them but actually we dont have rooms left all [of them] are full. Ma Tin Zar Myat Mon, communications manager at Chatrium Hotel, declined to comment when contacted by The Myanmar Times last week, saying only that the issue was difficult to discuss. Nevertheless, the pricing dispute comes at an awkward time, with interest in the country increasing dramatically and many industry publications listing Myanmar among their must-see destinations. It will be a big problem if Myanmar cannot meet demand, said Mr Jimmy Liu, managing director of Sydney-based China Bestours, which offers packages to Myanmar in cooperation with Pearl Nadi Travel and Tours in Pazundaung township. Of course, tourists really love to visit whatever the price but generally they still compare [prices] with neighbouring countries. At the end, when they compare the quality, the price, the costs, Myanmar is not in their top list, he said.

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IWT raises fares for foreigners

STATE-RUN Inland Water Transport has increased fares for foreigners on some Ayeyarwady River routes from April 1. The changes will see oneway fares on the MandalayBagan route increase from US$10 to $15, MandalayBhamo from $9 to $12 and Mandalay-Katha from $7 to $9. No price changes have been made to delta services. The increases come after IWT increased fares for local passengers on some delta routes last year in a bid to reduce its heavy operating losses and avoid privatisation. We want to get more income for the next [financial] year, department head Commander U Lay Thwin on May 8. This year the number of tourists who take our river boats has really increased a lot from last year. We increased the fares because we know foreigners can afford to pay that amount. The department was unable to give an exact figure for the increase but Cmdr U Lay Thwin said that about 13,000 foreign passengers travelled took its Ayeyarwady River and delta services in 20102011. Yu Yu Maw.

World tourism body, govt set to restart cooperation

By Zaw Win Than TOURISM can become a success story and important job-creation vehicle for Myanmar, the head of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation said last week, as he announced that Myanmar was seeking to rejoin the agency. Speaking to journalists on May 7 at the end of a three-day visit to Myanmar, UNWTO Secretary General Mr Taleb Rifai said President U Thein Sein had officially informed him that Myanmar wanted to rejoin the organisation. He informed me that Myanmar is very keen and very interested in joining UNWTO Myanmar was a member of UNWTO in the past and its very easy to rejoin. I was very delighted by that and it will open the door [to] so many other things, Mr Rifai said at a press conference at Yangon International Airport on May 7. He said UNWTO paid special attention to developing countries because of the strong relationship between tourism and development. Tourism may help create jobs, infrastructure, trade, investment all of these are part of tourism. Therefore, we believe the more countries pay attention to tourism the more sustainable tourism will flourish and growth in the country. In the case of Myanmar in particular, we are very optimistic. We feel that we can make together a success story for tourism in Myanmar. Myanmar has tremendous natural and environmental access. It is also located in a region that is booming, he said. During a meeting with Minister for Hotels and Tourism U Tint Hsan, Mr Rafai said he also discussed ways in which the UNWTO could contribute to the development of the tourism sector. We have discussed specific plans on how to move forward on very becomes a success story here in Myanmar. Three main areas of cooperation were discussed with President U Thein Sein, who Mr Rafai said was particularly interested in the issue of training and human resource development. He asked to UNWTO to send a special team to assess and decide how to upgrade the curriculum and teaching standards at tourism-focused education institutions. He also stressed very much the connection between tourism and job creation. I found the president extremely aware and very much conscious of the benefits and potential of tourism. He also briefed me on his vision and I assured him that we will be working with him [to achieve it], he said. The most important thing is to prepare and train the workforce of Myanmar to become more professional and better trained. The second most important suggestion is promotion. We think that Myanmar now must have a strong brand like all the other Asian destinations around it. UNWTO also proposed supporting Myanmars bid to get Bagan on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Its time to do that and we must do it very quickly, said Mr Rafai, adding that the ancient capital was a fantastic open museum. I think there are many challenges in Myanmar but not more than ... in many developing countries.

UNICEF regional head to visit this week

UNITED Nations Childrens Fund regional director Daniel Toole will begin a week-long visit to Myanmar on May 14, the agency said in a statement. During his visit, Mr Toole will travel to Nay Pyi Taw to meet Vice President Dr Sai Mauk Kham and ministers of ministries that UNICEF works with to implement its programs. He will be accompanied by UNICEFs representative in Myanmar, Mr Ramesh Shrestha. From Nay Pyi Taw, Mr Toole will visit Mandalay to attend a donor conference hosted by the United Nations Resident Coordinators office and later visit some UNICEF-supported projects in the area. The statement said that he will meet ambassadors, partner agencies, dignitaries, diplomats and bilateral cooperation agencies in Yangon. Mr Toole is responsible for oversight, ensuring overall policy and program coherence, and regional as well as global advocacy for UNICEFs 14 offices in the East Asia and the Pacific region. Zaw Win Than

We have discussed ... specific plans on how to move forward on education and training, on promotion and branding and sustainable development growth.

important issues, such as on education and training, on promotion and branding and sustainable development growth. Each one of those lines were discussed in details with the minister and we briefed the president this morning and he was very supportive of our work and our collaboration, said Mr Rifai. We would like to say UNWTO has made a commitment to support [the government] to ensure that tourism

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A clarion call to prospective donors

By Adam McCarty THE excitement over the April 1 by-elections has fostered a surge of expectation about the prospects for Myanmars economy. Politicians will have to handle this issue carefully; it will take years for economic reforms to be implemented and to have an impact. Foreign investors are looking and planning, but big investments will not hit the ground for some years. Living standards and job creation are not going to increase significantly over the next two years. The bureaucratic wheels of donor organisations are also turning, but they will take even longer than foreign investors. Donors are cautious; they worry, they like to plan in detail before designing something. The design and tendering of any substantial project takes at least one year yet many donors are too busy looking for office space and staff. There are good reasons for moving forward methodically strategies are actually important but in the present circumstances of Myanmar I recommend you take the rulebook and throw it out the window. Political reform is still tenuous and its credibility depends on delivering tangible results before 2015. If things go wrong in the next two to three years, and donors have still not delivered changes on the ground, then the finger of guilt may be pointed in their direction. Donors need a two-track approach: business as usual planning and intervention design, alongside quick wins. Obvious quick wins are to upscale what is already being delivered in Myanmar, which is mostly livelihoods approaches of dubious sustainability. To start things off Id recommend holding a workshop in which all interested large NGOs present what they can most usefully deliver upon by 2015. This should have evaluation criteria that include on-theground impact within 12 months. Other quick wins are planas-you-go projects, mostly delivered by the private sector. Tender a three-year drawdown contract for a consortium of firms to design and implement study tours (decide what tours later); tender another to design and deliver in-country generic short-course training (project cycle, monitoring and evaluation, gender and so on); put US$30 million on the table and ask international universities to tender and explain how they would use that funding to establish a sustainable private university in Yangon over five years; do the same for a $20 million vocational training school; give many scholarships for study overseas; select 10 local English or computer training schools in Yangon and Mandalay and give scholarships to young people unable to afford the tuition fees ($10 million); and select an international firm to work with 10 districts to select 20 district and township infrastructure projects and implement them using modified local systems with a $30 million budget. These will be case studies to guide the implementation of larger projects under development and together total no more than a typical World Bank loan project but we cannot wait for those loan projects. Instead, hold a workshop where anybody can present a two-page concept note for quick win ideas. Rate them democratically at the workshop and award cash prizes. Of course none of the above can move forward without active support from the government. The private university, for example, needs land allocated and at least minister-level regulations passed. The government may not be able to deliver quickly on that if at all but at least a clear and simple offer was made by donors to get something moving quickly and so the finger of blame would be avoided. Donors should take the initiative to propose many project ideas that they would be willing to fund, and then see what gets support from the government. This is an atypical approach, but these are atypical times. Meanwhile, as I mentioned previously, the government must urgently review its regulations concerning FDI and development assistance, such as the approvals process and issuing of visas or they will become a bottleneck to disbursements. To avoid this, research and visit three ASEAN countries Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand and choose good regulatory practices from these. Is it possible for donor organisations to think and act outside the box beyond business-as-usual? Their political leaders would first have to embrace the idea, and that would be more likely if the Myanmar government was to make a statement supporting that approach. (Dr Adam McCarty is an Australian economist who has been living and working in Vietnam since 1991 as a university lecturer and consultant. He is chief economist at Mekong Economics Ltd, which is in the process of establishing a branch in Yangon, and can be contacted on adaminhanoi@gmail.com. This and previous articles by Dr McCarty can be found at http://capacity4dev. ec.europa.eu/myanmar/ blogs under the group Myanmar Economy.)

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Daw Suu gets passport

YANGON The government has issued Daw Aung San Suu Kyi with a passport, her party said last week, as the former prisoner of conscience prepares to travel abroad for the first time in 24 years. The 66-year-old plans to visit Oslo next month to finally accept her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in person. We were informed on Friday (May 4) that Daw Suu got her passport. Her passport is in her hand now, U Nyan Win, a spokesman for the National League for Democracy (NLD), said on May 8. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi began applying for travel documents soon after she was elected to parliament in the April 1 by-elections. As well as Norway, she also intends to travel to Britain, where she lived for years with her late husband and their two sons before she returned to Myanmar in the late 1980s. U Nyan Win said the trip would go ahead in mid-June as previously expected. AFP

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Shrimp prices double
By Aye Thidar Kyaw THE exchange value of Foreign Exchange Certificates has strengthened following changes to the countrys car import policy announced on May 7, trade officials said last week. The Ministry of Commerce announced that all citizens who have foreign currency bank accounts with selected private and state-owned banks can import cars made in 2007 or later. The Central Bank of Myanmar floated the national currency on April 1 and car importers are no longer required to provide export credits (earned through the export of commodities and a prerequisite for all imports), a Ministry of Commerce official said on May 7. As a result, traders said they expect the FEC, which was introduced in 1993, to disappear from circulation. Commerce Minister U Win Myint told journalists on May 7 that with the value of export credits also called export earnings By Soe Sandar Oo DEMAND for Myanmar shrimp and prawns has been stronger than expected and prices have doubled year-onyear, a Myanmar Fisheries Federation (MFF) official said last week. U Han Tun, the federations executive vice chairman, said both fresh- and saltwater species were in demand, adding that prices of black tiger shrimp have more than doubled this year to US$78 a kilogram in April, from $36.20 at the same time last year. Saltwater shrimp are mainly caught from the seas off Rakhine State, he said. April and May are the major harvest months but June and July are spawning season, so the catch will decrease then, he said. U Hnin Oo, chairman of the Myanmar Shrimp Association, said demand for the crustaceans was strong in the domestic and international markets. We cant supply enough shrimp to meet demand but the larger 4/6 size shrimp are taken from the sea and we need to start farming them to protect the marine fisheries, he said. He added that farming of the saltwater species was unprofitable when export tax was 10 percent but now that export taxes have been cut to 2pc it was time to begin setting up farms. We need government support [for our industry] like farmers in other countries receive if were going to start farming saltwater shrimp, particularly help to build infrastructure, he said. He warned that if the government did not help businesspeople to build saltwater shrimp farms, then entrepreneurs would refrain from investing. Daw Toe, a Yangon Fisheries Federation official, said she had never heard of people paying up to $30 for a single 200g shrimp, adding that overseas buyers must be very rich. But we can only farm smaller 6/8 or 8/10 size shrimp, she said. We should do research on farming larger shrimp to earn higher prices. And we need to protect this species in the wild or it might get fished out. U Myo Aung, a shrimp farmer in Rakhine States Sittwe township, said the higher prices came at a time when transport charges had increased significantly and feed costs were also rising. I started a saltwater tiger shrimp farm on May 9 that covers 1.5 acres and is 7 feet. I put 95,000 shrimp into the farm, which cost me K20 million. I hope my shrimp will grow to at least 100g each, he said. Japan is the main buyer of Myanmar shrimp but U Hnin U said there was great potential to export to the EU in future.

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People walk past a Nissan sports car at the Hantharwaddy car trading zone in Yangon last week. Pic: Yadanar falling, he would do what he could to protect exporters, who have long made extra income from selling their credits. U Than Lwin, a vice chairman of Kanbawza Bank, said export credits would also disappear over time but said the process would take at least one year. The Central Bank needs to instruct them [the government] because it shouldnt take that long, he said, adding that few other countries had such import barriers. An official from the Directorate of Trade, under the Ministry of Commerce, said the issues of export credits had not been officially discussed yet but added: Because export credits are still a kind of protection for exporters and the countrys trading sector we cannot drop them right away. By May 11, the exchange value of the US dollar listed on the Central Banks website was K827, while FEC and export credits

were changing for K835 on the black market, money changes said. At official foreign exchange counters operated by private banks, FEC and dollars were trading in the K820-30 range. A black market currency trader in Kyauktada said both currencies were trading for K15-20 more than in the previous week, adding that FEC demand had doubled within a day of the May 7 announcement. He said his group was selling up to FEC120,000 a day. FEC demand rose immediately after the latest car announcement and its hard to get FEC in the market now. But demand for export credits has fallen significantly, he said. A spokesperson for a bank operating an exchange counter on Thein Byu Road in Yangon said he did not expect the dollars value to rise significantly in the short-term because INGOs were expected to begin new projects soon, with foreign direct investment predicted to begin flowing in. As a result, there would be more dollars on the market, he said.

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Job watch
USAID seeks Community Participation Program Development Specialist (Grade-11) Qualifications Required: 1) Possession of a University Degree in the field of internationalor community development, political science, economics, public administration or a related field. 2) Minimum of five years in progressively more responsible positions in the field of humanitarian assistance and/or community development project management in the public or private sector. 3) Fluent speaking/reading/writing in English and Myanmar. English proficiency will be tested. 4) Must clearly demonstrate exceptional knowledge of community participation programs and an understanding of the Myanmar operational environment and the appropriate non-governmental entities. 5) Must have a high degree of computer literacy to be able to create and manipulate budget spreadsheets and have knowledge of other computer applications (i.e. Microsoft Office applications). 6) Must be able to organize and present technical information in concise written and oral form, evaluate important and complex programs independently. 7) Must have excellent judgment, sophisticated analytical and interpersonal skills, and strong organizational ability. Eligible candidate may submit application to Human Resources Office, P.O. Box 521, GPO, Yangon not later than May 28, 2012.

PTTEPI signs Zawtika construction work contracts

By Juliet Shwe Gaung PTT EXPLORATION and Production International (PTTEPI) signed contracts for construction work at its Zawtika gas project in the Gulf of Mottama on May 7, the company said. The signing ceremony took place in Yangon at the Chatrium Hotel. PTTEPI contracted the tasks of building processing and living quarters to Singapore-based SMOE Pte Ltd, a recognised leader in the engineering and construction of offshore production platforms, a PTTEPI official said. The official said the work is expected to cost US$360 million. The company also contracted transportation, installation, hook-up and commissioning of Zawtikas processing and living quarters platform to Straits Offshore Pte Ltd (SOPL), also based in Singapore, on the same day in a deal worth $57 million. In developing the gas timely fabrication of the living quarters as well, he added. In November 2011 PTTEPI contracted Indias Larsen & Turbo Ltd to build Zawtikas three wellhead platforms, with the onshore export pipeline and associated facilities contracted to China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau. The offshore component of Zawtika projects pipeline will be about 230km while the onshore section crossing Tanintharyi Regions Dawei district and Yayphyu township is about 70km. Zawtika is a joint PTTEPI and Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise project, with the former to receive 80pc of the revenues from the sale of gas under the production sharing contract. Most of the gas 240 million cubic feet a day (mmcfd) or 80pc will be exported to Thailand with the rest, 60mmcfd to be used for domestic use. Ministry of Energy statistics state that the Zawtika field contains reserves of 1.4 trillion cubic feet of gas.

Company officials pose for a photo after the signing of construction contracts for the Zawtika gas project. Pic: Supplied field, PTTEPI will deliver gas through a 28-inch pipeline across a distance of about 300 kilometres [to Thailand], said Mr Suksant Ongvises, construction project manager of the Zawtika project. Mr Ho Nee Sin, managing director of SMOE Pte Ltd, said the company was informed that it had won the contract in May last year and has been buying equipment since. Our project team is doing the steel work, which we expect to complete by early August and will be followed by the installation of equipment, he said. And we are on track for the

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Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), a Japanese governmental organization responsible for implementing Official Development Assistance (ODA), Myanmar Office is seeking a Receptionist for its expanded works in the Union of Myanmar. Key responsibilities: - Welcoming and receiving incoming international and local visitors and telephone calls - Managing incoming and outgoing letters and documents, making copy, and other duties as appropriate - Establishing and ensuring effective working relationship with visitors - Establishing effective communication and working relationship with government counterpart organizations - Keeping records of incoming and outgoing mails - Carrying out any other duties that may arise from time to time All staff members have to maintain professional security, accuracy and integrity. Failure to do this may result termination of employment contract. Job description may be revised as necessary. Duration of Assignment : Initially up to 31 March 2013, with possibility of yearly renewal upon satisfactory performance. Eligible candidate should possess following qualifications; - university degree - fluent in English (reading, writing, speaking) - age less than 30 years - ability to work in a team and maintain harmonious relationship with other staff and other organizations and - good computer skill and knowledge of Word, Excel & Power Point, e-mail and internet How to apply : Qualified and interested persons are requested to send the applications with updated C.V, educational credentials and references to JICA Myanmar Office, Room 701, 7th Floor Sakura Tower, No.339, Bogyoke Aung San Road, Kyauktada Township, Yangon not later than 31 May 2012. Note: Only short listed candidates will be contacted for subsequent interviews.

CNG pipeline near Htantabin fixed after 20 hours

By Juliet Shwe Gaung A COMPRESSED natural gas pipeline near Htantabin in Yangon Region ruptured on May 5, spewing natural gas into the surrounding area for eight hours before the supply was shut off, a Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise official said last week. The leak, which also caused a fire, was reported by a MOGE official at 7:30am on May 5. The incident happened in the field and therefore, nobody was injured, he said. The pipeline, which runs from Nyaungdon in Ayeyarwady Region to Ywama in Yangon Region, supplies natural gas used to power many of Yangons taxis and buses. A crew of eight MOGE personnel travelled to the site of the leak and worked until it was repaired at about 4am on May 6. We finished the repair early on May 6 and restarted the gas flow soon after the repair. CNG stations in Yangon were fully supplied again by 8am on May 6, said the official. U Soe Thein, a taxi driver whose car runs on CNG, said he had waited for nearly two hours on May 5 to buy fuel, a process that normally takes 15 minutes.

FDI report outlines opportunities, risks

By Stuart Deed POTENTIAL investors are crawling all over Myanmar, with the previous pariah nation now regularly described as the regions final frontier. However, would-be investors are finding that tracking down reliable information on the countrys different sectors can be a major challenge. In recent months a number of reports informing potential investors have been written, including international heavyweights such as the Economist Intelligence Unit. In a further addition to the burgeoning field, Mr Keith Rabin, authored the recently released report: Business and Investment Opportunities in the New Myanmar. This initial report is designed to provide perspective on recent developments in Myanmar and how companies and investors can begin positioning themselves to take advantage of the opportunities now emerging, he said. Mr Rabin said in an email interview with The Myanmar Times that the report is based on interviews with leading experts and reviews of several hundred sources, and was written over the course of February and March this year. During his stay Mr Rabin met key government officials including the ministers of industry and commerce, the Central Banks governor and several presidential advisors, as well as other government representatives, the private sector, donors and NGOs. Following a trip to Myanmar this month [April] for discussions with business and government leaders, we plan to supplement this first briefing with sectorallyfocused reports. This will help to provide the data needed to plan, and justify market entry and investments, in tourism, technology, telecom, resources, manufacturing, services and the other areas addressed within this study, he added. Our report is oriented to companies and investors seeking not only an understanding of how recent trends are effecting Myanmar but how they can develop strategies and the planning that will allow them to participate in, and benefit from, the many opportunities now emerging, Mr Rabin said. He added that his company, KWR International, also provides buyers with a no-cost consultation so they can ask questions and better pursue opportunities in Myanmar to determine how this market might fit into their own corporate and investment strategies. Mr Rabin has a long history of involvement with Myanmar, dating back to before the country emerged from the socialist era, having managed a company that focused on developing trade between Myanmar (then Burma) and the United States and Europe from 1980 to 1987. That position saw Mr Rabin spend several months a year in the country and he formed close links with the Myanma Export Import Corp (MEIC), Yangon Division Cooperative Syndicate, Ministry of Industry 1, donors, the US embassy and many private clients and vendors. The 57-page report outlines Myanmars comparative advantages, including its geographical location, 55million-strong untapped market, bountiful natural resources, and also takes a look at the factors that could derail the countrys growth. These include the need to resolve conflicts with ethnic minorities, to release political prisoners and re-integrate them into civil society, to overcome sanctions, and to sustain continuing movement toward a more democratic form of government. Mr Rabin said he was confident that the government officials he met understood the scope of the task in fasttracking Myanmars economic development. I was extremely impressed with the understanding the [government] officials and their staff demonstrated of Myanmars needs, their honest evaluation of the present situation and their determination to move forward. At the same time it is important to recognise the immensity of the challenge before them, he said. Myanmar has remained a largely closed economy for many decades and substantial work must be done to develop the policies, regulatory standards, institutional capacity and human and other resources needed to manage the large FDI inflows we are likely to see in coming decades. At the same time it is important to understand that foreign investors do not need to see a perfect structure in place, but rather confidence they will see positive, sustainable movement in the right direction. The report concludes with a section titled Regional Catalysts that Reinforce Reform Process that draws on the importance and impact of the 2013 Southeast Asia Games, the chairing of the 2014 ASEAN Summit and the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community in 2015.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Myanmar is seeking a qualified local applicant to fill the post of: 1. Assistant Community Services Officer (NOA) (LICA) to be stationed in Maungdaw 2. Assistant Community Services and HIV Officer (NOA) (LICA) to be stationed in Mawlamyine 3. Assistant Community Services, Health and HIV Officer (NOA) (LICA) to be stationed in Yangon 4. Protection Associate (G6) (LICA) to be stationed in Yangon with frequent and extended visits to other operational areas. The detailed Terms of Reference for these positions are available on request from UNHCR offices in Yangon, Maungdaw, Mawlamyine, Myeik, Taungoo and Myitkyina. Closing date: 22.05.2012 www.unhcr.org

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Myanmar needs policy reform for growth: IMF

WASHINGTON Myanmar is set for economic takeoff and faces an historic opportunity to launch growth that would lift living standards if it pursues the right policy mix, the IMF said on May 8. Myanmar has been taking tentative steps towards democracy after decades of military rule, has seen the publication of its annual IMF Article IV economic consultation report for the first time under its new reformist leadership. The IMF mission chief for Myanmar, Meral Karasulu, said the Southeast Asian nation had already made progress and could see gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 5.5 percent to 6pc over the next two years. There is very strong momentum. I have been working with the country since 2009 ... and I think over the last couple of years the progress is really tangible. Myanmar could see strong growth if it pursues the necessary reforms to take advantage of its rich natural resources, young labour force, and proximity to some of the worlds most dynamic economies, including China and India. The mission chief said Myanmar had prioritised the reform of its complex exchange rate system with many restrictions that gave rise to multiple exchange rates that drove up costs, discouraged foreign direct investment and caused Myanmars currency, the kyat, to appreciate. The Central Bank had introduc e d a m a n a g e d exchange rate system in March after the Article IV team had left. Upon its launch, Myanmars Central Bank set a reference exchange rate of K818 a dollar. On May 11, it was quoted at K827, against the old official rate of about K6. Myanmar plans to complete the process of exchange rate unification, including removing all exchange rate restrictions and eliminating multiple currency practices before their target date of end-2013 when the Southeast Asian Games are due to be held, she said. Ms Karasulu said the IMFs experience in other countries suggested that eliminating informal markets for currency exchange was a task that would typically take about one to two years. Currency reform could also not be rushed, given pent-up demand from importers for foreign exchange. Myanmar has about US$9 billion in foreign currency reserves, the IMF notes, about nine months of imports. International reserves of the country remain quite comfortable and if anything we do expect them to get better because there are significant new natural gas projects that would increase the foreign reserves. Most of Myanmars foreign reserves were managed by three state-owned banks, in addition to the Central Bank, an unusual arrangement. She said the IMF has recommended that the Central Bank take over sole responsibility. The Article IV report said unleashing Myanmars high growth potential would require cross-cutting reforms and substantial technical assistance to modernise the financial sector with a stronger regulatory and supervisory framework. Myanmars financial sector is small and repressed, with controls on financial intermediation. Modernisation of the financial sector is essential to facilitate development and prepare the sector for membership of the ASEAN Economic Community, the IMF said. It further noted that Myanmars economic growth was narrowly based on energy and agriculture, which was hindered by poor access to credit, lack of private land ownership, and inadequate infrastructure and inputs. Lifting agricultural productivity will be essential for rural development and inclusive growth. The IMF believes that the planned land reform could provide an opportunity to jump-start this process of development. Industrialisation was a priority in the countrys economic plan. Despite its low wage advantage, the manufacturing sector has been stifled by poor infrastructure and knowhow, low investment, and extensive administrative controls limiting private sector development, the IMF said Cross-cutting reforms would be needed to support private sector development. A key priority is to reduce the cost of doing business and policy ambiguity by improving transparency, and improving infrastructure, it said. The IMF estimated Myanmars GDP at just over $50 billion for a population of about 55 million. In contrast, neighbouring Thailand, with a population of about 67 million, has a GDP of $348 billion. Reuters

Insurance industry set for privatisation

By Myat May Zin MYANMARS insurance industry is set for a major shake up with private companies allowed to join the sector, a news conference was told late last month. Myanma Insurance has been selling application forms from its offices to interested parties from the start of May. Myanma Insurance president U Aye Min Thein said at the news conference that the state-run body would inspect all applications carefully and retained the right to reject applications, even if they met requirements. We will allow private companies to offer six types of insurance, he said. If there are a lot of applications, we will take more time. Myanma Insurance will continue to provide insurance for government projects as well as ventures in the oil and gas industry, he said. [But] we dont want to see a situation [develop] where insurance companies disappear within a short time because they have taken on more risk than they can manage. Application forms must be lodged by June 29 and the successful companies will receive confirmation from the Customs Department in August. We have given companies more than one month to prepare their applications, which will help us to choose the right businesses, he added. Companies interested in offering life insurance must have at least K6 trillion in capital in state-run banks, while those offering general insurance must have capital of at least K40 trillion, he said. We have a good reason to set such high capital requirements: this business is not for everyone and we are worried about potential bankruptcies or absconders. We only want businesses that have very strong financial positions to take part in this industry, said U Aye Min Thein, adding that providing insurance was a lucrative and easy business until a natural disaster occurred. Companies that are given permission to begin providing insurance services will need to deposit the required capital with Myanma Economic Bank. The company will then be required to select a representative to keep in touch with Myanma Insurance and keep the company in line with its rules. Myanma Insurance will set minimum premium amounts and maximum commission charges, said Dr Mg Mg Thein, general manager of Myanma Insurance. We will control private companies at first. In Singapore the insurance market is highly competitive, with companies reducing premiums and paying high commissions to agencies to encourage them to do business. But a combination of low premiums and high commissions made them vulnerable during the financial crisis, he said. The owner of a well-known construction company that has projects countrywide said he was tempted to form an insurance company but would probably choose not to because of the risks posed by natural disasters.

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Rouissi said, is that tenants in existing apartment buildings pay low fixed rents and landlords are only CASABLANCA, Morocco able to remove tenants if When the French seized they pay a hefty relocation Casablanca in the early cost of about 50,000 euros 1900s, they turned the (US$66,000). historic Moroccan port Developers have been into a classic of colonial known to have a cosy architecture that would be relationship with local immortalised in the 1942 officials and building namesake film. demolitions are sometimes In the decades since rubber-stamped. the release of Rebuilding is Casablanca, real estate done at the expense development and Weve got to act of the city and its property speculation heritage, said Rouissi, have reshaped the fast ... There are whose association is city into one bearing little resemblance to buildings in a state of hoping Casablanca will be ranked as a its movie depiction and UN Educational, advanced disrepair. preservationists are Scientific and increasingly fretting Cultural Organisation about what will become of the crumbling French an experiment in early 20th (UNESCO) World Heritage c o l o n i a l f a c a d e s , n e o - century urban planning and Site. Though local authorities Moorish details and art today there are about 4000 have been slow to act in deco hotels. buildings in need of help. Weve got to act fast, Real estate developers the past and there is no said Karim Rouissi, vice- often look to buy historic national strategy to preserve president of Casamemoire, properties, tear them down architectural heritage, an association to protect the and build more modern they are becoming more citys old buildings. There a p a r t m e n t b u i l d i n g s responsive to preservationist are buildings that are in a through which they can pleas, Rouissi said. Some of the citys rapid state of advanced disrepair. charge higher rents and redevelopment can be The old Lincoln Hotel is recoup expenses. a case in point. Created in Part of the problem, seen along the Boulevard By Omar Brouksy 1916 by the French architect Hubert Bride a few metres from the central market, the Arabesque Art Deco building was used by American spies during World War II. The hotel closed in 1989 and today is in ruins, with only its facade surviving though this too is breaking apart. Rouissi says much of Casablanca was built as

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The Rialto in Casablanca, one of the citys first cinemas, designed in 1930 by French architect Pierre Jabin and pictured on April 18. Pic: AFP Mohamed V, one of the citys oldest roads. Today, much of the street has become a construction site for a future tram line, though architecture buffs still flock to the area to look at old buildings. In the historic town centre, a short distance from the ancient medina, or old Arab quarter, the famous Excelsior Hotel has become one of the hippest cafes in Casablanca, a diverse city of about five million residents and the beating heart of Moroccos economy. The Excelsior is adorned with a whitewashed colonial facade, built by French architect Hippolyte-Joseph Delaporte in 1916 and decorated with Spanish tile. Across the road is the main entrance to the medina, the ancient city where Jews, Muslims and Christians co-existed for years, where an old Catholic church is today being converted into a cultural centre. AFP

Limas sacred, pre-Inca ruins fall prey to growth

LIMA On street corners, under garbage dumps, at construction sites preInca archaeological sites abound in Lima, where the ruins of hundreds of sacred places are at the mercy of urban growth and public indifference. In the middle of the Miraflores residential district, one of Limas best restaurants opens onto the terrace of an ancient pyramid, offering fine food in a 1500-year-old setting bathed in artificial lighting. The Huaca Pucllana, the citys archaeological star, has been impeccably preserved thanks to a partnership with the restaurant, but the rare public-private initiative is an exception to the rule. About 3 kilometres (2 miles) away, in the densely populated Chorrillos neighbourhood, a sign marks the existence of an intangible archaeological zone. Its base is heaped with garbage. A small Catholic shrine sits in the middle of the ruins or huaca built thanks to the patronage of the local mayor, as another sign says. There is no registry that keeps track of the huacas which comes from the Quechua word waka meaning sacred place but archaeologists say more than 300 of the adobe structures are spread around this city of nine million people. Most huacas are officially the cultural patrimony of the nation, but the area around them that cannot be touched is not delineated, bemoans Cristian Vizconde, an archaeologist who heads a project at the biggest site in northern Peru. This omission allows developers and squatters to invade them, or mayors to build parks and playing fields on them, he said. And where huacas have not been designated as was erected on top of the Taulichusco palace, the seat of the citys government in pre-Columbian times. The colonial city hall built in 1549 is on another sacred site, the Cabildo huaca, and a temple dedicated to the god Puma Inti once stood where the cathedral is today. The remaining huacas for the most part are not protected, which is why they have been invaded by families without homes, or turned into dumps or refuges for delinquents, said Luis Caceres, director of archeology at the Culture Ministry. There are notable exceptions like Pucllana or the Huallamarca huaca, a vast second century pyramid that today is enclosed by a park and museum. But most of Limas huacas face an uncertain future due to a lack of money for conservation projects, said Caceres. The state cannot be responsible for everything. We think we have to work more closely with the local population to preserve the huacas, said Jorge Silva, an archaeologist at the University of San Marcos. An effort launched in 2010 to make a tourist attraction of 10 of Limas huacas has failed so far to take off. For now, a save a huaca campaign that seeks to enlist private sector support for threatened sites offers the best hope for their preservation. AFP

Most huacas are officially the cultural patrimony of the nation, but the area around them that cannot be touched is not delineated.

cultural patrimony, they have virtually disappeared, he said. In a way, there is nothing new here: Lima is expanding along with its booming economy, paving over the citys ancient foundations with non-stop construction, just as it always has. Archaeologist Elias Mujica recalls that the presidential palace on the Plaza de Armas or its predecessor built by Francisco Pizarro after founding Lima in 1535

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architecture is inspired by the imagery of Houston, the sprawling US oil town that impressed the sheikhs of the Middle East. In a career spanning five decades, the Mumbai-based architect and planner from the former Portuguese colony of Goa has passionately advocated buildings adapted for their climate and environment and shaped by local culture and history. Asked about the generic glass-fronted office blocks that line the streets of new towns like Gurgaon, the booming outsourcing and IT hub outside the Indian capital, he has no answer. What should I do? Go and throw stones at them? he said. W h i l e t h e b a t t l e f or good design might be lost, Correa has not given up on his campaign for more liveable cities in India as overcrowding, pollution and the destruction of open spaces gather pace. At a recent conference in New Delhi, the sprightly 81-year-old could be found speaking to city planners from all over, stressing the need to protect forest areas and other public spaces for citizens to meet and socialise. They [Indias cities] are mostly getting worse, but the good thing is that they are a 1.2-billion population lives in cities currently, far lower than the 50.6pc in China or the 7080pc in developed countries, according to the UNs 2011 World Urbanisation Prospects report. It forecasts Indias urban population will grow 28pc from its current level of 377 million to 483 million by 2020. By 2030, it will have grown 60pc to 606 million. The McKinsey Global Institute research centre says India needs 700-900 million square metres of residential and commercial space a year, 350-400 kilometres of new metros and subways a year and 19,000-25,000 kilometres of roads. This urban expansion will happen at a speed quite unlike anything India has seen before, the authors concluded. Correas home town of Mumbai with its 20,000 inhabitants per square kilometre on average has vastly exceeded the limits of its infrastructure, as demonstrated by its astronomical property prices and dangerously overloaded trains. In the early 1960s, Correa worked on a plan called the New Bombay which proposed opening up areas for office and residential space across from the main landmass that forms the heart of the city. When we were working on the New Bombay, the city was just four million. It was going to be eight million and we said its never going to work if we are 8 million, he said. The plan was mostly ignored and today Mumbai, as it is now officially known, has a population of 12.5 million according to the 2011 census. Correa, who has won prizes in Britain and Japan as well as serving as a judge for one of architectures top awards, the Pritzker prize, recounts the story to stress the importance of planning for the future. Not to anticipate this growth is criminal when you know these numbers. Your own statisticians have dug up them up. Lets act as if they are real, he said. Migrants must be diverted away from the main cities to second or third-tier towns where planners have an opportunity to anticipate the changes ahead and build better public transport for instance, he said. They come to the cities for jobs. If you can find ways to employ more people in the villages, thats wonderful, but if they are coming for jobs they dont have to come to Delhi and Bombay. AFP

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Indian architect warns of urban breakdown

By Adam Plowright NEW DELHI Theres a note of despair in his voice as Charles Correa, Indias most famous modern architect, discusses the multiplying shiny high-rise apartment blocks sprouting across the nation. You see the big ads Buy your house, its time you moved up in life and its a horrible project. Twenty-five identical buildings, some swimming pools somewhere, and the angle is such that you see all 25 of them, he said. Theyre the kind of cloned building that used to be done by Stalin and the Russians or in the Bronx that people just hate and dread, the celebrated Modernist added. The reason, he believes, is that people think tower blocks are progressive and modern a perception derived from cities such as Dubai and Singapore which are visited and admired by Indias new elite. People see that as an image of progress, he told AFP. For people in Bombay [Mumbai] and Delhi, Dubai is a big source of inspiration. They go there for shopping. They think its a smart place I presume. Dubai Correa has written in one of his many essays on

Indian architect Charles Correa gesturing during an interview with AFP in New Delhi on March 7. Pic: AFP system of cities. Its not like Lagos dominates Nigeria, London dominates England and Paris in France. Thats deadly, he told AFP. Correas hope is that small and medium-sized towns can be developed and grown, integrating efficient public transport and proper planning which are missing in the current urban centres of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata or Bangalore. Medium-density residential buildings of five to six storeys are ideal structures, not the vanity high-rise projects whose occupants overwhelm local infrastructure and public amenities. You cant go on overloading these existing cities. They will break down, said the former chairman of the National Commission on Urbanisation and one-time Harvard professor. I do worry and despair that our government wont understand that you need a proactive role, he aid, holding his round thick-framed spectacles which recall one of his heroes, the French master Le Corbusier. The scale of the task and the stakes for the hundreds of millions involved could not be larger. India is a land of gigantic, often alarming numbers, but those available for the predicted explosion in the urban population are truly arresting. Only 30 percent of Indias

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HAS THE FUTURE OF CARS ARRIVED?: Todd Goldstein of General Motors shows the companys electric network vehicle or EN-V, during the 26th International Electric Vehicle Symposium in Los Angeles, California on May 8. GM developed the EN-V to support the needs of city dwellers where space is limited and most drives are at slow speeds over short distances. The EN-V is about four times lighter and three times smaller than a convetional car. Pic: AFP

Japanese firm Sharp to sell talking robot vacuum cleaner

TOKYO Japanese electronics giant Sharp said last week it had created a robot vacuum cleaner capable of recognising and responding to simple voice commands in several languages. The Cocorobo understands dozens of phrases such as good morning, clean the room and responds differently depending on the cleaning situation, Sharp said in a statement. It will also update owners on the battery level, when the dust collector needs emptying and even has a camera to take snaps of areas that need cleaning. The robot speaks standard Japanese as well as English, Chinese and western Japans Kansai dialect, used in areas around the city of Osaka where Sharp is based, the company said. The company did not give the price of the new cleaner, which it will start selling in June, but Kyodo news agency said the model equipped with conversation and camera functions is to sell for about 130,000 yen (US$1630). AFP

Slow internet upsets users

By Htoo Aung INTERNET users have once again been left fuming by a recent slowing of connection speeds, with caf owners hit hardest. The owner of Thae Pyae San internet caf in Botahtaung township said his shop pays for two internet connections. We subscribe two internet lines Sky Net and Yatanarpon Teleport ADSL. The Sky Net connection is still bad and we can barely use that line but the Yatanarpon connection is fair, said 24year-old Ko Pyae Soan. We still cant make pfingo calls but at least users are able to surf the internet. The slow connection started when we heard that a cable was accidentally cut in Hledan and it hasnt recovered since then, he said, adding that the cable was cut on April 7. U San Min, the owner of Life.net internet in Kyauktada township, said users are unhappy with sub-standard internet connections. We only have a Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications line and the connection speed is always changing, although its usually fastest in the early morning and late evening, he said. Improving the internet connection speeds should be a gradual process but it shouldnt suddenly slow down like it does, he said. He added that public access centres faced the greatest difficulties and users were loathe to visit them. Ma Phoo Pwint Paing, a 22-year-old information technology student who lives in Sanchaung township, said she used the internet for up to four hours a day to study. I use internet to find resources for my assignments and to check that I havent plagiarised in my work after the pieces are finished, she said. She added that in previous months she could only do bandwidth-intensive searches at night but in the past few weeks the connection speeds have sometimes been too slow even late at night. Ko Lin Lin, a 29-year-old journalist who lives in North Okkalapa township, said using the internet was essential in his profession. Im a journalist so I need to keep abreast of news as it happens, he said. Its essential for me to know what news is happening. I connect to the internet as soon as I reach my office and check for updates one more time before I leave, he said. However, he said that some days he cannot even open his email account. U Thein Win, chief engineer of Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications mobile department, said: We are constructing infrastructure nationwide and are expanding fibre-optic cables between Yangon and Mandalay, MandalayMonywa and to Myitkyina.

Yahoo launches probe in CEO credentials flap

SAN FRANCISCO Yahoo said last week it would create a special committee with the help of an outside lawyer to review the controversy over chief executive Scott Thompsons misstated academic credentials. Amid stepped up pressure from an activist hedge fund, the Yahoo board announced that the committee would review Thompsons academic background as well as how much was known by those who hired him. Yahoo last week acknowledged an inadvertent error in the CEOs online bio, which wrongly indicated that he had a degree in computer science. The news of the special committee came a day after a hedge fund battling the management of Yahoo called for the release of documents about the recruitment of Thompson in a scathing filing with regulators. The filing by Third Point with Securities and Exchange Commission came after the hedge funds deadline passed on its demand for the ouster of Thompson for misrepresenting his educational background. Third Point, which owns 5.8 percent of the struggling tech giant, filed its slate of candidates for the Yahoo board, ensuring a proxy battle, as it stepped up its attack on management. The special committee is chaired by Alfred Amoroso, an independent director of Yahoo, and has retained as its independent counsel Terry Bird, a Los Angeles attorney specialising in litigation and internal investigations. The special committee and the entire board appreciate the urgency of the situation and the special committee will therefore conduct the review in an independent, thorough and expeditious manner, Yahoo said in a release. The board intends to make the appropriate disclosures to shareholders promptly upon completion of the review. Yahoo also announced that board member Patti Hart had decided not to seek re-election at the annual shareholders meeting, the date for which had yet to be set. AFP

Trade Mark CauTion

Malaysia dairy industries Pte Ltd., a company organized and existing under the laws of Singapore, and having its principal place of business at 2, Davidson Road, Singapore 369941, is the Owner and Sole Proprietor of the following Trademarks:-

reg. nos. 3463/2003, 2902/2006, 2111/2009, 3317/2012

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reg. nos. 3457/2003, 2896/2006, 2105/2009, 3311/2012 reg. nos. 3458/2003, 2897/2006, 2106/2009, 3312/2012 reg. nos. 3465/2003, 2904/2006, 2113/2009, 3319/2012 reg. nos. 4068/2000, 2905/2006, 2114/2009, 3320/2012 richemont international Sa, a Company incorporated in Switzerland, of Route des Biches 10, Villars-sur-Glane, Switzerland, is the Owner of the following Trade Mark:-

reg. nos. 3459/2003, 2898/2006, 2107/2009, 3313/2012

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in respect of Milk & other dairy products; all nonalcoholic drinks and beverages under Classes 29 and 32. Any fraudulent imitation or unauthorized use of the said Trademarks will be dealt with according to law. u nyunt Tin associates, Intellectual Property Law Firm P.O. Box 952, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: 951 375754, Fax: 951 254321 Email: info@untlaw.com For Malaysia dairy industries Pte Ltd. Dated: 14th May, 2012

reg. no. 5592/1996 in respect of Ashtrays, badges, boxes, candlesticks, cases, coffee and tea services, cuff-links, household containers and utensils, powder compacts, salt and sugar containers, table plates, trays for household purposes, all these made of precious metals or coated therewith Jewellery, precious stones, horological and chronometric instruments. Fraudulent imitation or unauthorised use of the said Trade Mark will be dealt with according to law. Win Mu Tin, M.A., H.G.P., D.B.L for richemont international Sa P. O. Box 60, Yangon. Dated: 14th May, 2012

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BEIRUT The recent escalation of violence in Syria, including twin bombings on May 10 that killed at least 55 people, has pushed the country closer to war and could spell an end to a UN ceasefire mission, analysts said last week. The country is in a civil war vortex, and all this is happening while the international community is not living up to its responsibilities, said Khattar Abu Diab, professor of international relations at Paris Sud University. Though the Damascus bombings were the deadliest since an antiregime uprising began in March last year, analysts said the imminent failure of a UN-backed peace plan was already clear. President Bashar al-Assads regime has failed to implement a six-point plan brokered by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, said Abu Diab. The ceasefire has not been respected, people have not been allowed to protest freely and peacefully, and the political prisoners have not been freed, he said. The putative truce technically came into effect on April 12, but hundreds of people on both sides have died since then, and the UN and rights groups have accused both the regime and rebels of violating it. Earlier last week, UN leader Ban Ki-moon warned the government and opposition that there was only a brief window to avoid a full-scale civil war. But with no clear alternative to the peace plan in sight, we stand before a dead end, Abu Diab noted Some say the UN mission may have already failed. The West is supporting a mission that it doesnt believe in, Peter Harling, an expert on Syria with the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, told AFP. The Annan mission is born out of the international communitys ambivalence, he added. At the same time, escalating violence may have regional repercussions amid outside calls to support armed groups on the ground. Such actions contravene the spirit of the Annan plan, he added. As the May 10 blasts seemed to prove, violence has already escalated to the degree that its unclear what action the UN can take at this stage, he said. To date, only some 70 of a planned 300 observers have been deployed to oversee the truce. Syrias neighbour and former ally Turkey has even and the opposition over who was responsible for last weeks twin bombings deepened analysts fears that all-out war was nigh. With no way of knowing for a fact who was behind the blasts, the regime tried to reinforce its argument that al-Qaeda or foreign intelligence was behind the violence, Paul Salem, director of the Carnegie Middle East Centre, told AFP. Assads regime has regularly blamed armed terrorist groups and Gulf countries for violence in Syria and used that argument to justify its crackdowns. But obviously, the Syrian revolution is not about al-Qaeda, and its not about the Gulf, said Salem. Its about Syrians being fed up with their situation, like many other citizens of the Arab world, and demanding their rights, he added. Experts agreed that the longer the violence continues, the more the kind of extremism Assads regime warned of at the start of the revolt when the uprising was still peaceful was actually coming true. From the very first day, the regime responded to the protests as war, said Salem. It has created a war. Eventually, it will probably suffer the consequences of what it has created. AFP

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The shattered remains of vehicles at the site of the twin blasts in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on May 10. The bombings killed at least 55 people and injured nearly 400. Pic: AFP/SANA suggested that 3000 are needed. Harling said Syria was witnessing a diversification of forms of violence. He said it included an escalation of armed clashes in Damascus and targeted assassinations. What began as a peaceful uprising in March 2011 gradually degenerated into an armed conflict, after Assads regime responded to protesters with a fierce military crackdown. Mutual accusations by the regime

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JAKARTA Indonesian searchers with climbing equipment and body bags scaled the near-vertical face of a dormant volcano on May 11 to retrieve the bodies of those killed when a Russian jet crashed during a sales promotion flight. Earlier report, P. 23. JERUSALEM Israels prison service has offered to ease restrictions on Palestinian prisoners in a bid to end a hunger strike by nearly 1600 detainees, sources told AFP on May 10. LONDON More than 30,000 off-duty police officers marched through London on May 10 and hundreds of thousands of British public sector workers went on strike over the governments austerity measures. LONDON Hundreds of horses and over 1000 performers from around the world staged a glittering pageant in the royal town of Windsor on May 10 in a stirring start to the main celebrations for Queen Elizabeths diamond jubilee. GENEVA The Red Cross said on May 10 it was reviewing its presence in Pakistan following the murder of a British aid worker abducted in January and found beheaded last month. SEOUL North Korea said on May 10 it would strengthen its nuclear deterrent and other defences regardless of cost, amid fears it was preparing for another atomic weapons test. AFP

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Hollandes win a turning point, says media

PARIS The European and international press on May 7 described the victory of Socialist Francois Hollande in the French presidential election as a turning point for Europe, but warned of major challenges ahead. Au revoir President Bling Bling! headlined Britains conservative tabloid Daily Mail, while German papers wondered what the defeat of Nicolas Sarkozy would spell for Germanys ties with France. Hollandes victory was a turning point, especially for Angela Merkel, Financial Times Deutschland said, noting the German chancellors support for Sarkozy. How unpleasant for Merkel. Not so much because Hollande would threaten the rescue of the euro. But because his demand to complement the EU fiscal pact with growth elements strikes at the chancellors supremacy in Europe, it noted. Left-leaning Berlin paper Tagesspiegel also viewed the socialists victory as a blow for Merkel. It saw France as symbolically leaving northern Europe in favour of southern Europe in terms of drifting away from budgetary discipline and concluded: This means that Germany has fewer, too few, allies. In non-euro Sweden the Dagens Nyheter (DN) said that Hollande has campaigned on proposals that could rock the boat, and Europe is holding its breath. B r i t ai n s In d e pe n d e n t said Hollandes victory, and the end economist, hailed voters in France, and also Greece, for having turned two thumbs down on Europes current economic strategy. Its far from clear how soon the votes will lead to changes in actual policy, but time is clearly running out for the strategy of recovery through austerity and thats a good thing, Krugman wrote, welcoming the end of the FrancoGerman axis dubbed Merkozy. slightest experience of government, opens a new political stage in France as much as Europe, the paper wrote. For the centre-right daily El Mundo, the French left had regained the presidency in elections marked by the biggest economic and social crisis of the past half century. In Asia, Japans Jiji Press said Hollandes success and that of the anti-austerity parties in Greece was a warning sign for those pressing for economic reforms in Europe. After these severe judgments from voters, the EU will inevitably need to review its course. An editorial in Chinas Global Times daily argued that Hollandes victory alone would not in itself be enough to push through debt reform in France. The change has to come from reflection of a wider scope, it argued. But protests against austerity measures from Greece to France have suggested that this muchneeded reflection is far from coming. Statesmen are busy pleasing voters, not leading reflection. AFP

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BERLIN Chancellor Angela Merkel called on May 10 for Germanys partners to stick to commitments on fighting the euro crisis and on Afghanistans future, in comments directed mainly at French president-elect Francois Hollande. Hollande wants to renegotiate the eurozones fiscal austerity pact and begin pulling French troops out of Afghanistan before the end of the year, ahead of a plan for international forces to be withdrawn by the end of 2014. Hollande is due to travel to Germany to meet Merkel on May 15 after being sworn in as president.

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of Sarkozy, heralded a change in how Europe tackles its debt crisis and how France operates around the world. Londons Financial Times said: Sarkozy becomes latest victim of anti-incumbent backlash, with all eyes now on reaction on the world markets. In the New York Times, columnist Paul Krugman, the austeritysceptical Nobel Prize-winning Italys biggest selling daily, Corriere della Sera, said the vote for Hollande was a defensive choice against a Europe of sacrifice without equality, of austerity without growth. Spains centre-left daily El Pais declared: The European left was reborn this May 6 in France. The anticipated victory of Hollande, a phlegmatic man who has the gift of irony but not the

Greek socialists fail to form coalition

ATHENS Greeces socialist leader admitted on May 11 he had failed in a lastditch bid to form a government, taking the nation a step closer to repeat elections as it faces increased EU pressure over its finances. Pasok chief Evangelos Venizelos was the third party leader who tried and failed to form a government after inconclusive elections on May 6 that saw a backlash against painful austerity measures. The crisis has raised the possibility that Greece could default and leave the 17-member eurozone.

Putin to miss G8 summit

MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin will miss the forthcoming G8 summit in the United States as he is busy forming a government after starting his third term as head of state, the Kremlin said on May 10. Putin will however meet US President Barack Obama at the G20 summit in June in Mexico, the Kremlin added, confirming an earlier statement by the White House. The trip for the May 18-19 G8 summit at the US presidential retreat at Camp David was to have been Putins first foreign visit since his inauguration on May 7 as president after his four-year stint as prime minister. Putin told Obama in a telephone call he unfortunately cannot take part in the May 18-19 G8 summit as on those days the formation of the Russian government will evidently still not be completed, the Kremlin said. The American side received this information with understanding, it added. It also confirmed that Putin would be represented by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. AFP

Obama takes gamble, backs gay marriage

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WASHINGTON US President Barack Obama took a calculated gamble and stepped into the political unknown on May 9 with his firm public backing for gay marriage, after a long period of personal soul searching. Obamas move, in an interview with ABC News, sent seismic waves through pre-election politics and sparked immediate speculation as to whether he had hindered his chances of winning a second term in November. But it also led his election foe Mitt Romney and his Republicans onto tricky ground, as the partys social conservative base opposes same sex marriage, even as it becomes quickly more accepted across the broader political spectrum. Ive just concluded, for me, personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married, Obama said, unveiling his bombshell. Obama has now abandoned the sheltered but increasingly untenable position that he was evolving on gay marriage. The risks are clear, and dictated Obamas previous stance, despite fierce pressure for a more unequivocal stance from Obamas liberal base. The sudden injection of a divisive moral-social question could hit Obamas prospects in battleground states that he needs to win in November. He has always had trouble connecting with white, blue collar, socially conservative swing voters, and his support for same-sex marriage will hardly help. A case in point is North

Romney closes gap with Obama: poll

WASHINGTON Republican Mitt Romney has evened it up with President Barack Obama in swing states six months ahead of the US election, a new poll showed on May 7. In the 12 battleground states likely to determine the outcome on November 6, the president led Romney 47-45 percent among registered voters, showed the USA Today/Gallup Swing States poll. That represents a substantial tightening from the nine-point lead Obama enjoyed in late March.

US President Barack Obamaa bombshell. Pic: AFP Carolina, which Obama won by less than one percent in 2012. On May 8, 61 percent in the state voted to ban gay marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships. Some observers feel Obama could face a backlash from religious Hispanic and African-American voters, who helped sweep him into the White House in 2008. There may be a few white, religious Democrats whom he could lose in Ohio, said Professor Paul Beck of Ohio State University, adding that some Hispanics could drift away in Colorado or Florida. Still, I think the numbers will be small who are swayed at all by the position he took today, he said, ahead of an election shaping up to be dominated by the lagging economy. Conservatives pledged to make Obama pay. Todays announcement almost ensures that marriage will again be a major issue in the presidential election, said Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. A senior Obama aide said it was unclear how the marriage issue would play politically, especially in battleground states such as Ohio. Democrats shudder when they recall how ballot initiatives in swing states on social issues drove up Republican turnout in 2004 and helped defeat their presidential candidate John Kerry. Dennis Goldford, a professor of political science at Drake University, Iowa, suggested Obamas decision reflected an electoral and strategic calculation. Democrats are more likely to favour gay rights, and those who most oppose the concept tend to be conservatives who would never vote for Obama anyway, he said. It is just possible that Obama has pulled off a political master stroke, and decided to ride changing attitudes just at the right moment. As another senior official explained, public perceptions on gay marriage are changing more quickly than almost any other political issue in America. A Washington Post poll suggests that the US public has, like Obama, been evolving. In 2006, only 36pc backed legalising same-sex marriage, but in the latest poll, 52pc said they were for it. AFP

US experts back pill for AIDS

WASHINGTON US health advisers on May 10 urged regulators to approve Truvada, made by Gilead Sciences, as the first preventive pill against HIV/ AIDS instead of a treatment for infected people. The move came after clinical trials showed Truvada could lower the risk of HIV in gay men by 44 to 73 percent. The Food and Drug Administration is not bound by the recommendations of its expert panel, but usually follows the advice. A final decision by the FDA is expected by June 15. AFP

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Medvedev approved as PM in job swap deal with Putin

MOSCOW Russias new President Vladimir Putin on May 8 won parliamentary approval for his predecessor Dmitry Medvedev to become prime minister. Russias lower house of parliament overwhelmingly confirmed former head of state Medvedev as prime min iste r afte r h e w as nominated by Putin in accordance with a job swap agreement announced in September. Medvedev was backed by 299 deputies in the State Duma with 144 voting against his nomination, sealing Russias new power structure after Putin served as premier and Medvedev as president for the last four years. Putin aggressively defended the private decision to trade places, which added to the anger many Russians felt about fraud-tainted legislative polls in December followed by Putins controversial March presidential election victory. This decision (on the job swap) was taken by me long ago, I have said this openly. We have changed nothing and presented nothing in front of society or parliament that could be called a trick or a political game, said Putin. Medvedevs confirmation at the hearing had been essentially assured after both the ruling United Russia party that he heads and a largely pro-government bloc of the ultra-nationalist lawmaker Vladimir

British PM, deputy relaunch coalition

LONDON Britains prime minister and his deputy relaunched their ailing coalition on May 8, pledging to maintain their policy of tough spending cuts despite voters rejecting austerity in France and Greece. Prime Minister David Cameron said he would not let up on rapidly slashing public spending, even after his Conservatives and junior coalition partners the Liberal Democrats took a battering in local elections on May 3. Im afraid we cant let up on the difficult decisions that weve made to cut public spending and to get our deficit and our debt under control, Cameron said in a downbeat appearance at a tractor plant in Essex, southeast England. When you have a debt problem the one thing you mustnt do is keep adding endlessly to that debt. But after the opposition Labour party took control of 32 councils and won more than 800 seats from the ruling parties in the local elections, Cameron admitted: Weve got to try and help people more. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, a Liberal Democrat, appeared at Camerons side to back his plea for voters patience in the renewed downturn, after Britain officially returned to recession in the first quarter. Clegg, whose Liberal Democrats opposed rapid spending cuts before joining the coalition after 2010 elections, backed Camerons stance despite media reports of cracks in the alliance. Were not doing this for ideological reasons, with relish, because we want to shrink the state. Were doing this not because we want to but because we have to, Clegg said. Labour leader Ed Miliband, who was also in Essex, said voters wanted answers about why they promised change and things have got worse not better under a government offering economic failure with unfairness piled on top. AFP

Russian President Vladimir Putin signs an autograph after playing a game of ice hockey at Moscows Megasport Arena on May 7, hours after being inaugurated for an historic third term as the countrys leader. Pic: AFP Zhirinovsky committed their full support. But in a sign he may not get the smoothest of rides from this parliament, the opposition Communist Party and A Just Russia largely voted against and Medvedev fell short of winning the 300 votes reportedly sought by the Kremlin. As Putin and Medvedev sealed their job swap, police played a game of cat and mouse with protesters who had spent the night outdoors in central Moscow after Putins opulent inaugural ceremony that saw him sworn in for a third term as president on May 7. Police arrested about 50 anti-Putin protesters later on May 8, after earlier chasing them from the spot near the Kremlin where they spent the night, an AFP correspondent said. Those arrested included one of the leaders of the protest, anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny, Interfax said. Police have said they have made almost 750 arrests since May 6 in Moscow as opposition protesters defied a heavy riot police lockdown in the city. Several hundred people had joined the sit-in overnight on May 7, making a point of not brandishing a single political slogan. Spending the night in the open appears to be a new tactic by the opposition, whose more radical wing has called for civil disobedience to ensure their voice is heard. Navalny had described the action as an indefinite popular walkabout. We have to do it until they realise: this is our city, we go for a walk wherever we want and whenever we want, opposition activist and writer Boris Akunin said in a blog post. AFP

Tymoshenko ends protest

KHARKIV, Ukraine Ukraines jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko on May 9 halted a 20-day hunger strike after she was moved to a hospital in a bid to defuse a crisis overshadowing the Euro 2012 football. Ukraines prison authorities transferred Tymoshenko, 51, to a hospital where she will be treated by a German doctor for severe back pain. The doctor confirmed that the former prime minister had ended the hunger strike begun in protest at allegedly being roughly handled by prison guards. Ukraine is facing a possible extensive EU boycott of the Euro 2012 matches it is co-hosting with Poland in June over its treatment of Tymoshenko, who was jailed for seven years in October after a trial condemned by the West. The transfer complied with a demand by Tymoshenko to be treated by a foreign rather than a Ukrainian specialist. Amid an escalating diplomatic crisis, Ukraine on May 8 cancelled a summit of Central European leaders due to be held on May 11 and 12 after most participants pulled out in protest over the treatment of Tymoshenko. AFP

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Double agent helped foil airline bomb plot, says American media
WASHINGTON The man ordered by al-Qaedas branch in Yemen to blow up a US-bound airliner was a double agent who infiltrated the group and volunteered for the suicide attack, US media reported on May 8. American officials leaked details of the extraordinary intelligence coup two days after the White House announced a plot by alQaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) had been successfully thwarted. The double agent managed to spend weeks with AQAP before handing over information that allowed the United States to launch a drone strike on May 6 that killed Fahd alQuso, a senior figure who was wanted for the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, the New York Times and other media reported, citing unnamed US officials. A senior US official told the Times that a bomb for the planned attack was sewn into custom fit underwear that would have been difficult to detect even in a careful pat-down at an airport. Unlike the device used in the failed December 2009 plot by AQAP to blow up an airliner en route to Detroit, this explosive could have been detonated in two ways, in case one failed, the unnamed official was quoted as saying. The device used a highgrade military explosive that undoubtedly would have brought down an aircraft, the official said. ABC News had reported earlier that the latest plot by AQAP was thwarted by a spy who infiltrated the group and took the explosive to Saudi Arabia. The CIA and other government agencies declined to comment on the reports when contacted by AFP. FBI experts on May 8 were analysing the seized explosive that officials said was an updated version of the underwear bomb used in a failed attack on Christmas Day 2009. Although officials touted the disrupted plot as a success, they acknowledged AQAP remained determined to strike and its master bomb maker, Ibrahim Hassan Taleh Al-Asiri, was apparently hard at work seeking to circumvent airport security. Saudi intelligence likely had the lead role in disrupting the conspiracy, p o s s i b l y p r o v i d i n g t he double agent, former US officials said. The Los Angeles Times reported that the double agent was an informant overseen by Saudi Arabias intelligence service, which devotes great efforts to monitoring al-Qaedas branch in Yemen. AFP

US, China defence chiefs pledge more cooperation

WASHINGTON US and Chinese defence chiefs pledged last week to work together on cyber threats and forge a dialogue on security as both sides steered clear of a diplomatic dispute over a top Chinese dissident. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta and Chinas Defence Minister Liang Guanglie struck a positive note at a joint news conference at the Pentagon on May 7, announcing a joint counterpiracy naval exercise in the Gulf of Aden later this year and tentative plans to cooperate in the sensitive realm of cyber security. Liangs trip marked the first visit by a Chinese defence minister to Washington in nine years and US defence officals were anxious to avoid any mention of the controversy over blind rights campaigner, Chen Guangcheng. Chen didnt come up in the talks and officials had said beforehand that his fate was a subject for US diplomats at the State Department, not the Pentagon. At the Pentagon news conference, Liang rejected US allegations that China is behind cyber intrusions against US networks, but said both sides were ready to launch cooperative efforts to counter digital threats. China have developed technological capabilities in this arena, its extremely important that we work together to develop ways to avoid any miscalculation or misperception that could lead to crisis in this area. Concerned about Chinas rising military might, the Pentagon has long sought to forge a stronger security dialogue with Chinas top brass to ensure the rivalry does not escalate into conflict. Liang confirmed that Beijing had extended an invitation for Panetta to visit China later this year, which US officials viewed as an encouraging step. The talks touched on North Korea, maritime disputes in the South China Sea, cyberspace, nuclear proliferation, missile defence and cooperation on humanitarian operations, Panetta said. US officials are concerned about Chinas anti-ship missiles, submarines and satellite technology potentially undermining American naval power in the Pacific and limiting the reach of US aircraft carriers. But Beijing insists its military spending is purely defensive in nature, and has accused Washington of feeding tensions by portraying China as a threat. AFP

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Hundreds mourn Thai royal defamation prisoner

BANGKOK Hundreds of people gathered in Bangkok on May 9 to mourn the death of a Thai grandfather imprisoned for defaming the monarchy as an autopsy suggested liver cancer was the cause. A crowd massed before the coffin of Ampon Akong Tangnoppakul, 62, outside the Bangkok Criminal Court where he was convicted in November for sending text messages deemed insulting to the royal family. Ampon was found dead in his cell on May 8. His supporters paraded his coffin through the city on May 9 to the Criminal Court building. I will bring his body to perform religious rites in front of the Criminal Court to remind the public of the importance of amending article 112 and allowing all those who are sick to receive medical treatment, his wife Rosmalin Tangnoppakul told reporters after collecting defamation legislation, which critics say is used to stifle free speech. His death tells us to keep on fighting and article 112 must be changed in the future, Thai political scientist Phuangtong Pakawan told the May 9 rally. Many who attended were supporters of the Red Shirts protest movement which is loyal to ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra and whose members are arch-rivals of the royalist Yellow Shirts. Im not happy that Red Shirts have become involved in Akongs case, said Abhinya Sawatvarakorn, a student who has been accused of making antimonarchy comments on Facebook. The problem is the justice system and the law. I dont want to see it being used as a political issue, she told AFP at the rally. AFP

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New US warship to deploy in Singapore
WASHINGTON The first in a new class of US Navy combat ships will be sent to Singapore next year for a 10-month deployment, an official said on May 10, as the US moves to expand its Asia-Pacific presence. The USS Freedom will deploy to Singapore for 10 months in spring 2013, Navy Lieutenant Katie Cerezo said in an email to AFP. The ship belongs to a new class of littoral combat ships smaller, surface vessels intended for operations close to shore and able to deploy quickly to crises that are part of a US strategy focusing on the AsiaPacific.

Mourners gather around the coffin of Ampon Tangnoppakul during a vigil outside the Criminal Court in Bangkok on May 9. Pic: AFP his coffin from hospital. Under article 112 of the Thai criminal code, anyone convicted of insulting the king, queen, heir or regent faces up to 15 years in prison on each count. Ampon, who became known in Thailand as Uncle SMS, pleaded not guilty during his trial, one in a series under the royal

Foreign journalist expelled from China

BEIJING Al-Jazeera said on May 8 it has shut its English-language bureau in China after its correspondent became the first foreign journalist to be expelled from the country since 1998. Beijings refusal to renew the visa of US citizen Melissa Chan sparked anger among press groups, which linked the decision to a documentary by Al-Jazeera on forced prison labour in China. The Foreign Correspondents Club of China called the move a grave threat to foreign reporters ability to work in China.

Service honours slain Cambodian

VEAL BEI, Cambodia Hundreds of Cambodians held a memorial service on May 11 in a remote forest where a prominent environmental activist was shot dead two weeks earlier, vowing to keep his legacy alive. Some 300 villagers whose lives have been affected by deforestation and land grabs lit incense and paid respects at the spot where Chhut Vuthy was gunned down by a military policeman on April 26. Many of the mourners also held up photographs of the activist with the caption: I am Chhut Vuthy. Vuthy, 45, was killed after he refused to hand over photographs of illegal logging to the military policeman. His death rocked the country, turning a spotlight on the increasingly violent nature of land disputes. Vuthys supporters said they were determined to protect Cambodias rapidly dwindling natural riches despite the risks and pledged to continue forest patrols an initiative spearheaded by the late activist. The people will work to create more Chhut Vuthys, his death is not a threat to us, said Doung Deoum, then himself accidentally killed with his own weapon when a private security guard tried to disarm him, according to a government probe. The guard has been charged with involuntary homicide. Campaigners say Cambodia has recently seen a rise in violence against citizens involved in land conflicts, often at the hands of armed government security forces acting in the interests of private companies. Not including Vuthys death, the UN human rights office in Phnom Penh has investigated four shooting incidents at protests since the start of the year. Its a worrying trend to say the least, Surya Subedi, special rapporteur for human rights in Cambodia, told reporters in Phnom Penh at the end of his seventh visit to the kingdom during which he focussed on land conflicts. He blamed the recent spike in violence partly on an ongoing issue of impunity in the country. Subedi added that he was shocked by Vuthys death, and that he had visited his grave earlier in the week and paid his respects to his family. AFP

Engineer killed in drone mishap

SEOUL A foreign engineer from an Austrian company was killed and two South Korean colleagues were injured on May 10 when an unmanned spy drone crashed into their control vehicle during a test flight, police said. The trio was testing the aircraft for South Koreas military in the western port city of Incheon, police said. The crash triggered a fire and completely destroyed the 2.5-tonne vehicle, a police spokeswoman at Incheon told AFP.

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Phnom Penh suspends land deals

PHNOM PENH Cambodia suspended new land grants on May 7 after the murder of a prominent activist shone the spotlight on increasing violence surrounding property disputes. Prime Minister Hun Sen said in a statement that the government would temporarily suspend granting economic land concessions to ensure equity and to strengthen the effectiveness of leased land management. The authorities have faced mounting criticism in recent years from rights groups and the United Nations over forced evictions around the country that have sparked protests and displaced tens of thousands of mostly poor people. The death of well-known environmental activist Chhut Vuthy, who was gunned down by a military police officer on April 26 while gathering evidence of illegal logging in a remote forest, has added to the controversy. Cambodias government granted some 800,000 hectares (two million acres) in land concessions to well-connected private firms in 2011, said rights group Licadho. The figure represents about five percent of the countrys entire area. A further 300,000 hectares have been leased already this year, the group says, accusing authorities of a land grab. Hun Sen said that the government would take back land from any firms that breach their lease by cutting trees to sell, without developing the economic land concessions... and grabbing villagers or community land. The order, which comes as UN special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia Surya Subedi is in the country to examine the impact of land concessions on local communities, said the deals should provide real benefits to the nation and the people. Ou Virak, president of the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights, welcomed the government decision, but said more need to be done to compensate local communities for previous deals. Most economic land concessions do not have environmental or social impact assessments, he said. Land ownership was abolished during the 1975-1979 rule of the communist Khmer Rouge and many legal documents were lost during that time. AFP

Top monks quit over gambling scandal

SEOUL The leadership of South Koreas largest Buddhist order resigned en masse on May 10 after video footage emerged of junior monks playing poker with thousands of dollars at stake. Prosecutors launched a probe after the footage showed eight monks from the Jogye Order gambling at a hotel room in southern Jangseong County. Gambling is illegal in South Korea, except for in special areas such as casinos for foreign tourists, and is also a breach of the Buddhist orders code of discipline. AFP

(reg: no. iV/1051/2012) in respect of:- soaps; perfumery, essential oils, cosmetics, hair lotions; dentifrices- Class:3 Any fraudulent imitation or unauthorized use of the said trademark or other infringements whatsoever will be dealt with according to law. U Kyi Win Associates for kracie Home Products, Ltd. P.O. Box No. 26, Yangon. Phone: 372416 Dated: 14th May, 2012

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MANILA China told its citizens prepared to go to war to end the warnings in recent weeks in the main island of Luzon. The nearest the waters one of Asias potential on May 10 they were not safe in stand-off over Scarborough Shoal state-run media that China was major Chinese landmass is 1200 military flashpoints. More than 70 Vietnamese sailors the Philippines and its state media small islands in the South China prepared to use its massive military kilometres northwest of the shoal, were killed in 1988 when China warned of war, as a month-long Sea that both nations claim as advantage to crush the Philippines according to Filipino navy maps. The Philippines insists its and Vietnam battled for control of challenge for the shoal. row over rival claims in the South their own. The two nations have had non- claims to the area are backed by the Spratlys, an archipelago south No matter how willing we are China Sea threatened to spill out to discuss the issue, the current military vessels stationed at the international law, as the shoal is of Scarborough Shoal. of control. The Philippines, which admits C h i n e s e t r a v e l a g e n c i e s Philippine leadership is intent on shoal since April 8 in an effort well within its 200-nautical-mile to having an extremely weak and announced they had suspended pressing us into a corner where to assert their sovereignty to the exclusive economic zone. poorly resourced military, tours to the Philippines, has repeatedly said it wants under government orders, and the embassy in Manila Manila is living in a fantasy world if it mistakes our forbearance for timidity. to solve the stand-off over the shoal through diplomatic advised its nationals already means. in the country to stay indoors But it has also said it secured a But China claims virtually all there is no other option left but the area. ahead of planned protests. T h e d i s p u t e b e g a n w h e n of the South China Sea as its pledge from the United States, its Avoid going out at all if possible, use of arms, the China Daily said Philippine authorities detected territory, even waters close to the main military ally, to protect the and if not, to avoid going out in an editorial. Since ancient times, our nation Chinese ships fishing there. They coasts of the Philippines and other Philippines from attacks in the alone. If you come across any South China Sea. demonstrations, leave the area, do has deemed war the last resort in attempted to arrest the crew, Asian countries. A coalition of Filipino activist Taiwan, Brunei, Vietnam and not stay to watch, the embassys handling state-to-state relations. but were blocked by Chinese But Manila is living in a fantasy surveillance vessels that were Malaysia also claim parts of the groups was planning to hold rallies advisory said. sea, which is believed to sit atop at Chinese embassies around the The safety alerts came as world if it mistakes our forbearance quickly deployed to the area. The shoal is about 230 kilometres vast oil and gas resources. The world on May 11 to support the government-controlled media in for timidity. The editorial echoed other (140 miles) from the Philippines rival claims have for decades made Philippines in the dispute. China warned the country was

Beijing pledges to investigate claims of dried flesh pills

SHANGHAI China has pledged to investigate allegations that capsules containing the powdered flesh of dead babies are being produced on its soil and smuggled into South Korea. The gruesome practice came to light on May 6 when Korea Customs said it had uncovered multiple attempts to illegally import, in total, more than 17,000 of the capsules in travellers luggage or by mail. The pills are said to be filled with the flesh of foetuses or dead infants, dried then ground into powder, to be taken as a disease cure or to boost sexual performance. Beijing said a previous investigation into similar allegations had uncovered no evidence that such capsules were made in China, but pledged to reopen the investigation. We have not yet found the relevant capsules in China, foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on May 9. The health ministry will further investigate (this) in conjunction with relevant public security, industry and commerce and customs departments. Experts say the practice stems from a superstitious belief that eating the body parts of young infants will impart special physical strength or cure disease. But aside from the obvious ethical issues, there are worries the capsules could be contaminated with super bacteria and other diseasecausing organisms. Chinas health ministry declined to comment on May 9 when contacted by AFP, but spokesman Deng Haihua told the Shanghai Daily that reports of the capsules first surfaced in South Korean media last August. A Korea Customs official told AFP on May 8 that it would closely monitor flights from certain Chinese regions and inspect the luggage of passengers more often than before. Korea Customs said pills were sent from at least four Chinese cities at the request of customers in South Korea, but were intercepted in the mail or in customs searches at airports. They came from Jilin and Yanji cities both in the northern province of Jilin which borders North Korea as well as the northern municipality of Tianjin and eastern city of Qingdao, it said. Bringing in such pills breaches a regulation banning items that violate social dignity and customs, said Kim Soo-Yeon, an official in charge of customs clearance. The capsules sell for 40,00050,000 won (US$35-$44) each at some herbal medicine shops, South Korean media says. AFP

Work halted on Mekong dam project, assures Laos

BANGKOK Laos has postponed construction of a controversial dam on the Mekong, an official said on May 10, dismissing fears that the work was going ahead despite growing regional opposition. There is no construction on the Mekong river, Viraphonh Viravong, director general of the Ministry of Energy and Mines department of electricity, told AFP by telephone. Thai company CH Karnchang said in April it had signed a US$2.4 billion contract with the Xayaburi Power Co for the engineering, procurement and construction of the Xayaburi hydroelectric power plant. The firm added that construction would take eight years and had begun on March 15. But Viraphonh said only preparatory work had begun. Preliminary work like roads, accommodation and preparing for the power plant when the Lao government approves the project have been under way for a while now, he said. In December, the Mekong River Commission comprising the governments of Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam said the project should not proceed until further studies on its impact were carried out. The Lao government will wait for the approval from the concerned countries, said Viraphonh, adding that a new report on the expected impact had been submitted to Laos neighbours. Im confident that the new report will make them understand and the dam project can proceed. Cambodia and Vietnam fear the effects of the 1260 megawatt Xayaburi dam on their farming and fishing industries. Thailand has been more enthusiastic and has agreed to buy most of the electricity from the project. AFP

Distraught relatives of passengers aboard the Russian plane at Jakartas Halim Perdanakusuma airport on May 10. Pic: AFP

No survivors as plane slams into Indonesian mountain

CIGOMBONG, Indonesia All of the dozens aboard a Russian Sukhoi passenger jet on a sales promotion trip in Indonesia were killed when the plane slammed into a mountain, officials said on May 10. Rescuers who reached the remote site found bodies scattered near the wreckage of Russias first post-Soviet civilian plane on the sheer face of Mount Salak, outside the city of Bogor, south of Jakarta, officials said. We entered the area... and found the dead bodies, but we cannot say about the number, said Gagah Prakoso, spokesman for the national search and rescue agency. We havent found any survivors, he said. The twin-engine Superjet 100 vanished from radar screens on May 9, 50 minutes into what was meant to be a short flight to show off its capabilities to prospective buyers as Russia tries to rebuild its civilian jet industry. Reports of the number on board varied, with local rescue officials saying the plane was carrying 46 people and Trimarga Rekatama, the company responsible for inviting the passengers, saying 50 were on board. Those aboard were mostly Indonesian aviation representatives, but also included eight Russians four of them crew and four Sukhoi employees plus an American and a Frenchman, officials said. They said a helicopter pilot spotted the planes debris after rescuers resumed their operation at first light on May 10. Devastated relatives of those aboard the ill-fated aircraft had gathered at the Halim Perdanakusuma airport in Jakarta used for military and some commercial flights where the Sukhoi had taken off the day before. Prakoso said that evacuation of the bodies by helicopter was being hampered by bad weather. The evacuation is still difficult. By land well need 12 hours and by helicopter it would take only 20 minutes, but the weather is impossible, the search agency spokesman said. The Sukhoi Superjet, a new passenger aircraft, is crucial to Russias hopes of becoming a major player in the modern aviation market, and the crash in Indonesia is the first disaster involving the plane. The demonstration flight was part of an Asian tour to promote the aircraft, which is a joint venture between Sukhoi and Italys Alenia Aeronautica. It made its first commercial flight last year. The mountainous Mount Salak region rises 2000 metres (6500 feet) above sea level, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) southeast of Jakarta. Indonesian officials have said the Sukhoi descended to about 6000 feet shortly before it vanished. AFP

Tokyo to nationalise TEPCO

TOKYO Japans government will take a controlling stake in the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant under a plan ministers approved on May 9, effectively nationalising one of the worlds largest utilities. Tokyo will inject one trillion yen (US$12 billion) as part of a 10-year restructuring aimed at preventing Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) from going bankrupt. The vast power monopoly is facing a huge cleanup bill for the disaster at Fukushima, along with colossal compensation claims from those affected. TEPCO submitted a turnaround plan to the government earlier this month through the statebacked Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund and ministers meeting on May 9 gave it the green light. AFP

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By Presi Mandari JAKARTA A hardline Islamic group warned last week it would not let Lady Gaga set foot in Indonesia, challenging an army of fans awaiting a concert in the nation with the worlds largest Muslim population. The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) vowed to mobilise 30,000 demonstrators to protest the US artists June 3 performance in Jakarta and to intercept her at the airport. We will stop her from setting foot on our land. She had better not dare spread her satanic faith in this country, said FPI Jakarta chairman Salim Alatas. Her style is vulgar, her sexual and indecent clothes will destroy our childrens sense of morality. Shes very dangerous, he said. The US pop diva, famed for her outrageous outfits and provocative performances, has sparked opposition in other Asian countries with her Born This Way Ball global tour, which kicked off in Seoul last month amid protests. But the FPI, notorious for making threats and often failing to follow through, will face opposition from 40,000 fans planning to attend the sold-out show in Indonesia. Little Monsters as Lady Gaga fans are called tweeted their determination to see the pop idol perform in Indonesia, 90 percent of whose 240,000 million inhabitants identify themselves as Muslim. Little Monsters Indonesia vs FPI. Im ready to fight, Bentaniokevin tweeted to the LadyGagaIndo Twitter account. What?!! The FPI want to cancel Lady Gagas concert? They dont know art!! She is the lady of art!! GAGA Im waitin for you.. See u soon, nataliahaman tweeted. One page on Facebook, which is wildly popular in Indonesia, was seeking dancers for a Lady Gaga flashmob, which sees people perform a choreographed dance in a public place. The flashmob is to show our appreciation to Lady Gaga for planning to visit and to tell others who dont approve of her that theres nothing wrong with being her fans, said Anggiat Sihombing, an 18-year-old university student who set up the LadyGagaIndo account. We like her because she is a famous musician who makes use of her popularity to do good deeds, like establishing a foundation to protect kids who have been bullied. The Lady Gaga Indonesia Facebook page has more than 42,000 likes. Lady Gaga is not an ordinary human being. She uses her popularity to defend minority groups, especially gays and lesbians, said Hartoyo, general secretary of gay rights group OurVoice, who goes by one name. I would die for her, he said. Despite the opposition to her tour, the Poker Face singer has not toned down her performances at the Seoul show on April 27 she rode onto the stage on horseback, wearing a black bodysuit and an enormous black metal headpiece. There were small protests outside the show, with two foreign Christian protestors holding placards that read Lady Gaga. Go home! and Sexual purity, virginity, fidelity, while about 20 South Korean Christian activists prayed. In the Philippines, a youth organisation urged people to stay away from the stars May 21 concert, saying it posed a threat to moral values in Asias largest Catholic nation. AFP

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Photos of Daw Suu Kyi to go on display

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi campaigns in downtown Mandalay on March 4. Pic: Pyay Kyaw Myint By May Sandy AN exhibition featuring photographs of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi taken during her pre-election campaign trips in February and March will be displayed at the French Institute in Yangon from May 17 to 25. The exhibition, titled Aung San Suu Kyi: The Burmese Way to Democracy, will feature photographs by Min Zeyar, Pyay Kyaw Myint and Aung Pyae. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to attend the opening ceremony on May 17. Christophne Loviny, the artistic director of the Yangon Photo Festival held at the French Institute in February, said the photographs in the exhibition are beyond politics because they are historical. This is not everyday political life. These photos are very beautiful, very strong because of the phenomenon which occurred with Aung San Suu Kyi and the people. This is why they are very special. This is why we exhibit them, he said. What is also amazing is that Myanmar has many different people. These pictures were taken all over the country, and the peoples faces are so diverse. One of the participants in the exhibition, Min Zeyar, 23, said Daw Aung San Suu Kyis travels around the country during the lead-up to the April 1 byelection offered a special opportunity for photographers. She is already 67 years old. We dont know when she will be able to do this again. As a photographer, I wanted to experience the moments shared between Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the public, he said. The campaign started on February 11, and Daw Aung Suu Kyis nationwide travels included stops in Kawmhu, Hlegu, Pyapon, Thongwa, Myitkyina, Aungban, Kalaw, Mandalay, Sagaing, Nay Pyi Taw, Meiktila, Mawlamyine, Lashio and Myeik. We noticed Aunty Sus health conditions on different trips. It can be seen on our photos. They are very obvious, Min Zeyar said. She did not look well on the first day of her Mandalay trip. She felt better on the next day in Sagaing. In Lashio, she looked well but there were not a lot of people. Photographer Pyay Kyaw Myint said his approach in taking photographs of Daw Aung Suu Kyi differed from the methods that might have been used by journalists. News people choose an angle from which they can tell a story. For us, we went everywhere, following what she did and who she talked to, rather than just photographing her giving a speech on the stage, he said. The photographs will be on sale at the exhibition for US$300 each, and will be signed by the photographer. Eighty percent of the proceeds from sales will be donated to Ma Phyu Phyu Thins HIV centre and to the Daw Kin Kyi Foundation. Some of the photographs have already been published in French newspapers and magazines such as Paris Match, Le Monde and Point de Vue, as well as the English-language newspaper International Herald Tribune. The photographs will be exhibited at a photo festival in Arles, France, during the first week of July. who is interested, with a new topic covered each month. Classes are taught by artists from Myanmar and overseas. The gallery is located at No 54 (1-E), Bo Yar Nyut Street, Dagon township, Yangon.

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Win Phay Myint and 41 other artists will show more than 60 sketches at the Going Together exhibition at Lokanat Gallery from May 14 to 19.

Myanmar Photographers Association or YMCA by June 29 at 4pm.

Trade and car expo

The Yangon Trade Exhibition and Car Expo 2012 will be held at the Myanmar Convention Centre, Mindama Road, from June 1 to 4.

Male model contest

The Manhunt (Mandalay) Myanmar Male Model Contest 2012 will be held in Mandalay on May 31. Applications are available at BB Cake, Rain Photo Studio125, Meru Photo Studio and Casabella in Mandalay and must be submitted by May 25.

Song contest
FM Bagan is seeking contestants for a competition featuring songs by Sai Kham Leih. Contestants must record themselves singing one song by the composer and send the tape or CD to FM Bagan, No A (2), Mindama Housing, Mindama Road, Yangon, or to any Elite Mobile Shop. The deadline is May 31.

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Submissions are being sought for a photog contest on the theme of Myanmar traditions and culture. Each contestant can submit up to 10 photos to the Myanmar Hotelier Association (Yangon Zone),

Solo art show

US pop star Lady Gaga is welcomed by Japanese fans upon her arrival at Narita International Airport as part of her Asian tour on May 8. Pic: AFP The acrylic paintings of Myat Kyawt are on display on the ground floor of Asia Plaza on Saikkantha Street (Upper

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New Iggy Pop album shuns humiliating record labels

PARIS Punk pioneer Iggy Pop has taken his new solo album, a French-flavoured line-up of cover songs, straight to his fans online, shunning record majors convinced it would be a flop. They would have preferred that I do a rock album with popular punks, sort of like Hi Dad! I was not going to do that! the 65year-old American quipped at a press conference for the record launch in Paris on May 9. What has a record company ever done for me but humiliate and torment and drag me down? the sinewy rocker said of his move to sell it online in CD and download forms. Entitled Aprs (After), the record has the Francophile Iggy Pop crooning his way through tracks by the likes of Edith Piaf and Georges Brassens, his second French-inspired album after the 2009 Preliminaires (Preliminaries). Though he went it alone in creating the record, Iggy Pop was contractually obliged to offer it to his longtime label Virgin EMI. They didnt want it. They didnt think they would make any money, they didnt think my fans would like it very sensible attitudes for a sensible sort of person but thats a different sort of person than I am. So he went ahead and put the album on sale online, as a CD on the French website vente-privee.com, and in digital form on several download platforms. Iggy Pop real name, James Newell Osterberg was lead singer of The Stooges, a 1960s and 1970s garage rock band that influenced heavy metal and punk rock and whose live acts included Pop taking drugs, self-mutilating, verbally abusing the audience and leaping off stage. His best-known solo numbers include Lust for Life, Im Bored and Real Wild Child. Though he will probably work with a major with the newly reformed Stooges, Iggy Pop said as a solo artist he was unlikely to go back. Ive always had a very rough time in the big time music business, he joked. I got kicked off every label. AFP

Dancers gather to mark U Po Sein anniversary

By Nyein Ei Ei Htwe THE 130th anniversary of the birth of legendary traditional dancer U Po Sein will be celebrated with performances by various dance troupes at the National Theatre in Yangon on June 3 and 4, from 6pm to 11pm. The performers will include many of the most wellknown traditional dancers in Myanmar, including Chan Thar (Shwe Man Tha Bin troupe), Moe Win, Moe Min, Han Zar Moe Win (San Pya Tha Bin), Tin Maung San Min Win (Shwe Man Tha Bin), Swan Zarni (Swan Tha Bin), Zan Hein (Myat Noe Mhu Tha Bin) and Aung Ko Win (Aung Min Tha Bin). Performers will present a repertoire of traditional dances choreographed by U Po Sein, including Myay Wine Tha Bin (dance on the ground in a circle), Sin Myint Tha Bin (dance on stage) and Hna Par Thwar (duel dances). Ma Padamyar Kay Khine, a great-grandchild of U Po Sein who helped organise the event in cooperation with the Myanmar Theatrical Association (Central), said the anniversary celebration has been under consideration for years. My father U Ye Sein, who is also a dancer, has been asking for years for us to organise such an event. Weve spent a long time thinking about how to celebrate, and then my aunt Daw Nilar Khin Myint also said she wanted to organise something so we finally went ahead, Ma Padamyar Kay Khine said. She said one of main challenges was coordinating the most successful traditional dance troupes from around the country so they could all participate. We had the first meeting for this celebration in January and only earlier this month were we able to settle on the dates for the celebration, she said. We can see how difficult it is to get all the dancers together at the same meeting He said the role of director was very important to keep the event running smoothly, and all participants needed to abide by his decisions. Ill try my best to make the event a success and to ensure that we dont waste the producers money. Im sure all the troupes will also do their best, and we have even asked for suggestions for the stage sets from traditional artists, he said. U Moe Min added that he hoped the audience would accept the essence of traditional Myanmar dancing styles and operas mixed with new creativity. This will also be a chance for the Myanmar Theatrical Association (Central) to gain more respect and perhaps to attract more supporting members, he said. Another famous dancer, U Moe Win, said his San Pya Tha Bin troupe will not only perform but also help design the stage sets and lighting. Weve talked about making the lighting the best it can be, and for acting and dancing we will perform as the director wants. Even in the place of supporters, well surely do our best, he said. Among the other participants will be Tin Maung San Min Win, lead dancer of the Shwe Man Tha Bin troupe, who will perform in Taung Pyone Min Hna Par (two brothers from Taungbyone). When the organisers held the meeting with all the dancers, they offered me the role, which I really appreciated so I accepted. But there are so many people taking part, Im afraid the director wont be able to keep track of who is performing in which dance or opera, he said. But I think we will have unity among the traditional dance groups because were all taking part in the same program. It will surely be a historic event, but those who are playing the roles played by the great U Po Sein must be careful not to try to embellish his dance steps.

U Po Sein. Pic: Supplied because they are always performing at pagoda festivals or theyre difficult to reach because theyre living in small villages. However, she said that whenever she did make contact with dancers, they were always enthusiastic about taking part in the U Po Sein anniversary celebration. I cant thank them enough. The dancers say feel as if theyre not performing in a normal program but instead feel as if they are representing Myanmar traditional dance as a whole, Ma Padamyar Kay Khine said. It makes me feel more confident about holding the celebration and makes me feel like Im doing the important duty of a greatgranddaughter. Dancer U Moe Min, who is acting as director of the twoday anniversary event, said he will try his best to ensure that the operas, dances and stories of U Po Sein are preformed without any problems. I believe the performances will satisfy the audience, but with so many well-known dance troupes taking part Im worried that there might be some misunderstandings, he said. The troupe leaders all get along with one another like siblings, but Im afraid that there might be some friction among them. But I want the event to be successful, which is why I accepted Ma Padamyar Kay Khines offer to be director of the program.

US singer Iggy Pop gives a press conference to present his new album Aprs in Paris on May 9. Pic: AFP

Hollywood gives up the explosion, embraces the implosion

By Forrest Wickman WHEN the opening action set-piece of The Avengers ends with the destruction of a remote research facility, the structure goes out not with a bang but more of a cool sucking noise. Meanwhile, in the first trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, Bane is set not on exploding a football stadium full of thousands of people so much as imploding it. In the second Dark Knight Rises trailer, released earlier this month, rather than sending a bridge up in a fiery blast, a few tactical detonations send it neatly collapsing into the water. We appear to be entering a boom in Hollywood implosions. For the Hollywood blockbuster the implosion has many advantages over the explosion. The first and most obvious attraction is novelty. The implosion takes the rather well-worn Hollywood explosion and turns it inside-out with none of those pesky balls of fire covering up the destruction. Explosions are fairly pass at this point, even boring: The filmmaker most closely associated with them is Michael Bay, who, according to one movie demolition expert, has included steadily more explosions in each movie hes made (up through Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which reportedly contained a mind-numbing 283 explosions). And while practical effects remain as expensive as ever, convincing computer-generated ones have become cheaper and cheaper. This has allowed action movies to escape even further from reality, abandoning C-4 and good old reliable stick dynamite for alien weaponry and wand blasts and repulsor beams. As Adam Sternbergh argued in The New York Times Magazine, explosions were once one of the three main components of the American action film, but then computer animation gobbled up everything, chewing it all into weightless pixels. Now it can be as cheap to make the fantastical look real as it is to stage carnage. Or just compare a scene of planetary destruction in Star Wars (1977) with a similar scene in Star Trek (2009). In Star Wars a blast from the Death Star blows apart Alderaan in a hail of fireworks, but in Star Trek the Romulans inject red matter into the planet Vulcan, sending it slowly imploding in on itself until it turns it into a black hole. The effect in Star Trek is far more chilling, and it would perhaps never have been possible before the rise of CGI. (Indeed, while black holes have long been a subject of fascination in sci-fi flicks, theyve usually been used as others have noted just for time and space travel.) Theres at least one more reason the implosion may have added power these days: It evokes the most indelible image of 21st century destruction, the one filmed on September 11, 2001. The most frightening visual from that day was not the planes exploding into the towers, but the towers falling in on themselves. Hollywood has again and again demonstrated a willingness to infuse our popcorn flicks with heft and horror from that tragedy most recently in The Avengers and, whether were conscious of it or not, the implosion does just that. Meanwhile, an increasing number of our landmarks arent so much exploding or imploding in movies as falling over, as happens to skyscrapers in the trailers for both The Amazing Spider-Man and Battleship. (The trailer for the new G.I. Joe has no shortage of explosions, but one of the biggest set-pieces has London falling apart from underneath.) Cloverfield (2008), meanwhile, features at least one collapse producer J J Abrams acknowledged that they wanted it to be cathartic for those traumatised by September 11. Of course, I dont expect that the implosion will completely replace the explosion, which seems to tap into something primal, as if it were the tribal campfire. But if our visual effects continue to release us from the bonds of reality-based filmmaking, explosions may come to seem increasingly mundane, even quaint. Slate

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cherry-picked the selection from among almost 1800 entries, was particularly excited about this years American crop. These past few years American cinema has been split between two extremes, with big studio blockbusters on one side, and small independent movies on the other, he said. There used to be a culture of mainstream auteur cinema, of grown-up auteur cinema. Thats the cinema we should be seeing again this year. US director Wes Anderson strikes a joyous keynote with the opening film Moonrise Kingdom, a preteen elopement story whose star-packed cast includes Bruce Willis as a small-town cop. Tw o U S a u t e u r s a r e running for Cannes gold: Lee Daniels keenly awaited The Paperboy stars Kidman opposite John Cusack and Zac Efron in the tale of a reporter investigating a death row case. The second is Jeff Nichols, whose Mud, about two teenage boys who form a pact with a fugitive, was a surprise entry. American stories loom large throughout the line-up, though often told by foreign directors. novel On the Road, while Australians John Hillcoat and Andrew Dominik bring two USset works: bootlegging drama Lawless and the mobster flick Killing Them Softly. Among the European giants, Austrias Haneke will show Amour (Love), starring Isabelle Huppert as the daughter of a woman hit by a stroke. In the absence of Lars Von Trier banned from last years festival after incendiary remarks about Hitler fellow Dane Thomas Vinterberg injects a dose of icy Nordic drama with The Hunt. Britains Loach returns for the 17th time with comedy The Angels Share, about ex-offenders who turn to whisky-making. One of three French filmmakers in the race, Jacques Audiard has cast Cotillard as a killer-whale trainer hit by a tragedy in Rust and Bone. Romanias Cristian Mungiu, who scooped the 2007 Palme for a Communist-era abortion drama, returns with Beyond the Hills about two orphans, while Italian Matteo Garrone takes on TV culture with Reality. Asia gets a look-in with two South Koreans: Im Sangsoo with erotic thriller Taste of Money, and Hong Sang-soo with In Another Country. And Palme-winning Iranian Abbas Kiarostami returns at 71 with Like Someone in Love, a Japan-set tale about a student who works as a prostitute. Cronenberg father and son will both be in Cannes, with Brandon Cronenberg showing his debut Antiviral in parallel new talent section Un Certain Regard, chaired by British actor and director Tim Roth. Seventeen directors show work in that section, including the only two women in competition. Buzz-making films being screened out of competition include Philip Kaufmans Hemingway and Gellhorn, with Kidman playing the writers war reporter third wife opposite Clive Owen. Other out-of-competition screenings will include a documentary on Roman Polanski, one about Woody Allen and another about the Libyan war by French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy. The Artist star Berenice Bejo hosts the opening and closing ceremonies of the filmfest, which ends with Claude Millers Therese Desqueyroux, a tribute to the French director who had just finished editing it when he died last month. AFP

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Monroe beckons film world to Cannes

By Emma Charlton PARIS Druggy road-trips, soul-searching drama and stylish gangland flicks go head to head on the French Riviera this week as a galaxy of stars and directors converge for the Cannes film festival. David Cronenberg, Ken Loach and Michael Haneke headline the pick of 22 international filmmakers vying for the Palme dOr award at the 65 th edition of the worlds top cinema showcase from May 16 to 27. Star-wise, the 2012 lineup promises to dazzle with N i c o l e Ki d m a n , M a r i o n Cotillard, Jessica Chastain, Kylie Minogue, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Brad Pitt just a few of the A-listers expected in town. Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe, who herself never walked the Cannes red carpet, was chosen as the face of this years filmfest in a tribute 50 years after her death. Palme dOr winner Nanni Moretti of Italy heads the jury, with help from eight jurors including the actor Ewan McGregor and fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier. Festival general delegate Thierry Fremaux, who

C a n a d a s C r o n e n b e r g brings Manhattan thriller Cosmopolis, adapted from Don DeLillos novel. It stars Robert Pattinson as a

billionaire asset manager journeying through the city in a stretch limo. Brazils Walter Salles has adapted Jack Kerouacs cult

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Wedding Ceremony for Ko Myo Zin Maung and Designer Yin Thu Swe

Ma Chaw Kalyar and Dr Win Min Thit

U Zaw Moe

Ko Zaw Latt and daughter

U Wai Lwin Ma Wai Thit Lwin Mr Hiroshi Saito

Charles & Keith Summer Products Launch

Ma Nu Yin Win Bobby Soxer

Models

Thandar Bo

Noe Noe K

Wine May Thet Khine

May Thinzar Oo Yadana Mai

7th Anniversary of Star Resources Academy

Holika Holika Cosmetics Prize-giving Ceremony

U Htike Lun Maung

Daw Nay Yee Aung

U Saw Aung Myat Soe

iPanema Road Show

Lucky draw winners and celebrities

Giordano Branch Opening Ceremony

Khin Sandar Myint, Ye Min Thu and May Myint Mo

Khin Myint Zu Khine and Cobra

Models

Ma Nu Nal Thwal, Ma Nyein Nyein Saw and Ma Htoo Htoo Maw

M Seng Lu and models

Myat Noe Wai Marina Ye Min Thu, Myat Thu Kyaw, Htet Htet (Pop Soul), Wint Yamon Hlaing and M Seng Lu Zay Yar, Ko Thant Zaw Aung and Ko Sithu Yu Thandar Tin

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Green Hill Hotel Grand Opening

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Samsung Shop Opening

SOCIALITE kicked off May on Labour Day by attending the Recycle Art Exhibition Daw Nan Kham Leng, U Sai Poe Chit, U Aung Than, Daw Malar Khine and Dr Kyaw Htoo Lin at Diamond Condo, followed by the launch ceremony for The Cook magazine at Junction Square and the seventh anniversary of Star Resource Academy at Inya Lake Hotel. The following day she was back at Junction Square for the Giordano branch opening shindig. The main events on Socialites calendar on May 3 were the opening ceremony for Green Hill Hotel and a seminar for ultra-hip Inax products at Sedona Hotel. The next day she swung by Taw Win Centre for the iPanema road Ma Aye Mya Thandar, Ko Kaung Satt and Ma Yee Mon Oo show, and was back at the same shopping centre again the next day for the Samsung branch opening. (Socialite is the first to admit that she has a hard time resisting the pull of Yangons new shopping venues, especially where there are interesting events to attend!) On the weekend of May 5 and 6, she attended the wedding reception for Designer Yin Thu Swe and Ko Myo Zin Maung at Sedona Hotel, as well as the summer products launch by Charles & Keith at (you guessed it) Taw Win Centre.

U Tun Tun Ma Sandar

U Win Kyi

Ko Pyae Phyo Wai, U San Tun, Daw Myint Than, Ma Su Myat and KoNay Lin Oo

Ko Si Mon, U Win Kyi, Daw Kyi Taung and U Aung Myint

Moe Yan Zon and models

Recycle Art Exhibition

Dr Lwin Lwin Wai Ma Katherine Khin

Ko Pyae Phyo Naing, Ma Su Myat Mon and Ko Kyaw Nyein Oo

The Cook Magazine Launch

Dr Aung Nay Win and Dr Soe Kalyar Phyo Ngwe Soe

Wint Darli Zwe Naung Ma Theinge Htwe

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Turkey, Dubai thrive despite drop in travel to Mideast

DUBAI The Arab Spring has resulted in a sharp drop in tourism in countries at the centre of the turmoil, to the benefit of safe destinations in the region, experts say. Major tourist destinations such as Tunisia and Egypt saw the numbers of visitors plummet because of uprisings last year that spread to other nations where confrontations with autocratic regimes turned deadly. The Gulf city state of Dubai, as well as popular destinations outside the Middle East, became the focus of diverted tourism. The Middle East and North Africa saw a drop as a whole in international arrivals, mainly in Egypt and Tunisia, said Ahmed Youssef, Middle East and North Africa MENA director of marketing and operations at Amadeus. Tourist flows from Egypt to Turkey increased by 400 percent in 2011, said Youssef, speaking at the Arabian Travel Market last earlier this month in Dubai. His company provides IT solutions for the travel industry. According to the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), international tourist arrivals in the Middle East declined 8.4pc to 54.8 million in 2011, after growing 14.9pc the year before. UNWTO statistics also showed that tourist inflows to North Africa slipped 9.9pc to 16.9 million after increasing by 6.5pc in 2010. Due to the social and political developments Syria saw a drop of 41pc, Egypt by 32pc, Tunisia 31pc and Lebanon 24pc, UNWTO statistics showed in March. In autumn last year Jordan reported a 16pc drop in its tourism revenues in the first seven months of 2011. The sector contributes 14pc to the kingdoms gross domestic product. In Tunisia, where tourism accounted for seven percent of economic output in 2010, the sectors receipts plunged by a third in 2011. Syrian state newspaper Al-Baath reported earlier this month that four million tourists visited

AIRLINE OFFICES
Air Bagan Ltd.(W9)

56, Shwe Taung Gyar Street, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. Tel : 513322, 513422, 504888, Fax : 515102 Air Asia (FD) 33, Alan Pya Pagoda Rd, Ground Flr, Parkroyal Hotel, Yangon. Tel: 251 885, 251 886.

Air China (CA)

Building (2), corner of Pyay Rd and Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd, Hotel Yangon, 8 miles, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel : 666112, 655882.

Bangkok Airways (PG)

Yangon. Tel: 255122, 255 265, Fax: 255119

#0305, 3rd Fl, Sakura Tower, 339, Bogyoke Aung San Rd, Kyauktada Tsp,

Air India

75, Shwe Bon Thar St, Pabedan Tsp, Yangon. Tel : 253597~98, 254758. Fax: 248175

Myanmar Airways International(8M)

08-02, Sakura Tower, 339, Bogyoke Aung San Rd, Kyauktada Tsp, Ygn. Tel : 255260, Fax: 255305

Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey. Pic: Wikimedia Commons Syria in 2011, despite insecurity in the country where thousands have been killed since antiregime protests erupted in March 2011. But the number reveals a drop of more than 40pc from the seven million tourists registered in 2010. On the other hand, Turkey received 1.4 million Arab tourists in the first eight months of 2011, up from 1.2 million in 2010. And Dubai last year posted a 10pc rise in guests at hotels and hotel apartments, reaching 9.09 million, with revenues hitting 15.97 billion dirhams (US$4.4 billion), up 20pc from 2010. In the first quarter of 2012, the number of guests increased 9pc to 2.6 million guests, according to Dubai authorities. They hope the number of tourists will hit 10 million this year. The Arab Spring has left an impact, said Khaled alMazroui, general manager of Fujairah International Airport in the United Arab Emirates. Tourists look for safe destinations, in addition of course to quality services, he said, adding that the UAE had benefited from this diversion of tourism, especially from neighbouring Gulf countries. Paul Griffiths, chief executive officer of Dubai Airports, acknowledged an increase in tourists from neighbouring Gulf states who would usually travel to Egypt or other Arab countries on the Mediterranean. There has been a redistribution [of tourists] over the past few months, he told reporters, pointing to a significant surge in tourists [in Dubai] from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and other Gulf nations. Dubais malls and restaurants have been heaving with Gulf visitors during school holidays over past months. The head of UNWTO, Taleb Rifai, gave an upbeat assessment at the Arabian Travel Market, saying some of the destinations hit by last years uprisings were already making a comeback. Countries directly affected like Egypt, Tunisia, Syria and Yemen saw a downturn of 80 to 85pc as political events unfolded but minimised losses considerably in 2011, closing the year down by 25 to 30pc, he said. AFP

Malaysia Airlines (MH)

335/357, Bogyoke Aung San Rd, Pabedan Tsp, Yangon. Tel : 387648, 241007 ext : 120, 121, 122 Fax : 241124 339, Bogyoke Aung San Rd, 2nd Floor, Sakura Tower, Kyauktada Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: 255 287~9 , Fax: 255 290

Silk Air(MI)

Thai Airways (TG)

#11-01, Sakura Tower, 339, Bogyoke Aung San Rd, Kyauktada Tsp, Ygn. Tel : 255499 Fax : 255490

Vietnam Airlines (VN)

#1702, Sakura Tower 339, Bogyoke Aung San Rd, Kyauktada Tsp, Yangon. Fax 255086. Tel 255066/ 255088/ 255068.

Domestic Airlines
Yangon Airways(YH)

Boeing, Airbus orders cancelled

spokeswoman Jennifer Cram, leaving total orders for the aircraft at 854. For its European counterpart, the cancellation of seven A350-1000 aircraft by Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways represented a loss of $2.2 billion at catalogue prices. The Emirati airline cancelled six other A3501000 aircraft late last year. Airbus said the airline was going through with 12 of the 25 planes it ordered in 2008. Airbus also declined to comment on the order figures for the A350-1000, a new aircraft it began assembling last month which also includes many composite materials. The first A350s are due to be delivered in 2014. Boeing retained a large advance over Airbus in terms of orders received this year. Boeings orders

PARIS Boeing and Airbus suffered major order cancellations last month, with airlines dropping 25 787 Dreamliners and seven A350s, according to data released by the aircraft manufacturers last week. With 25 cancellations of 787 Dreamliners, against 19 orders so far this year, Boeing is in negative territory for its flagship aircraft built with composite materials that it says will use 20 percent less fuel than similarly sized aircraft. A Boeing spokeswoman spokeswoman said China Eastern Airlines had Shanghai Airlines had switched orders of 24 787 Dreamliners for 45 737-88 aircraft. The switch means US$800 million less for Boeing at list prices. A VIP client also cancelled an order for a 787 Dreamliner, said Boeing

stood at 415 on May 1 against 95 for Airbus on April 31. However, Taiwans EVA Airways on May 8 ordered three Boeing 777-300ER passenger aircraft for $930 million as the carrier moved to retire less fuelefficient planes. EVA Airways, the second biggest air carrier in Taiwan after China Airlines, said it also leased four aircraft of the same type from GE Capital Aviation Services. Delivery of the seven planes is slated from June 2014 and is due to be completed two years later, the carrier said, adding that they will be used on long-haul flights to North America and Europe. Boeing said the type of aircraft is about 20 percent more fuel-efficient than competitors from other aircraft makers. It did not provide details. AFP

166, MMB Tower, Level 5, Upper Pansodan Rd, Mingalar Taungnyunt Tsp, Yangon. Tel: (+95-1) 383 100, 383 107, 700 264, Fax: 652 533.

Air Bagan Ltd.(W9)

56, Shwe Taung Gyar Street, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. Tel : 513322, 513422, 504888, Fax : 515102

AIR KBZ (K7)

33-49,Corner of Bank Street & Maha Bandoola Garden Street, Kyauktada Tsp,Yangon, Myanmar Tel: 372977~80, 533030~39 (Airport) Fax: 372983

Air Mandalay (6T)

146, Dhamazedi Road, Bahan Tsp, Yangon Tel : 501520, 525488 (Head Office) 720309, 652753, 652754 (Airport Office), Fax: 525 937

Asian Wings (AW)

No.34(A-1), Shwe Taung Gyar Street, Bahan Township,Yangon.Myanmar. Tel: 951 516654, 532253, 09-73135991~3.Fax: 951 532333

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DOMESTIC FLIGHT SCHEDULES

DAYS Flight
MON AW 891 6T 405 AW 911 6T 401 K7 222 W9 011 6T 801 AW 761 6T 351 K7 824 AW 791 K7 224 6T 501 K7 228 YH 909 6T 405 AW 891 AW 901 W9 251 6T 401 6T 801 YH 729 AW 761 K7 622 K7 224 6T 501 AW 891 AW 911 6T 401 6T 331 K7 222 6T 801 AW 751 YH 737 K7 824 K7 622 W9 261 AW 791 YH 731 6T 501 YH 909 AW 891 AW 901 6T 401 W9 255 6T 331 YH 729 AW 201 K7 226 K7 224 6T 501 YH 731 AW 891 W9 251 6T 401 YH 917 6T 331 K7 222 AW 751 AW 211 K7 824 6T 501 YH 731 W9 271 6T 403 YH 909 AW 891 AW 911 6T 401 YH 729 6T 801 AW 601 K7 622 K7 224 6T 501 AW 891 YH 909 AW 891 6T 401 W9 255 K7 222 6T 801 AW 211 AW 751 K7 622 6T 501 YH 634 AW 892 6T 402 K7 223 W9 262 6T 802 W9 021 YH 728 AW 762 K7 224 6T 502 K7 825 W9 009 AW 902 AW 892 6T 402 YH 910 W9 011 YH 812 6T 802 W9 251 W9 150 AW 762 K7 224 YH 730 6T 502

INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT SCHEDULES

DAYS Flight
MON W9 143 AW 892 YH 918 W9 011 6T 402 K7 223 AW 792 K7 225 AW 892 YH 918 W9 011 6T 402 W9 116 K7 827 K7 225 W9 143 AW 892 YH 918 6T 402 K7 223 W9 143 AW 892 YH 918 6T 402 K7 827 K7 225 W9 143 AW 892 YH 918 6T 402 K7 223 AW 911 W9 143 AW 892 YH 918 6T 402 K7 827 AW 752 K7 225 AW SPL AW 892 YH 918 W9 011 6T 402 K7 223 AW 752 W9 116 YH 738 6T 611 W9 309 6T 611 W9 309 6T 611 W9 309 6T 611 W9 309 6T 607 W9 309 K7 426 6T 611 W9 309 6T 611 W9 309 K7 426 6T 612 W9 310 6T 612 W9 310 6T 612 W9 310 6T 612 W9 310 6T 608 W9 310 K7 427 6T 612 W9 310 6T 612 K7 427 K7 319 6T 707 AW 301 K7 313 6T 707 K7 313 6T 707 K7 319 6T 707 AW 301 AW 301 K7 319 6T 707 K7 319 6T 707 K7 319 6T 707 AW 301 K7 320 6T 708 K7 314 6T 708 AW 302 K7 314 6T 708 AW 302 K7 320 6T 708 K7 320 6T 708 K7 320 6T 708 K7 320 6T 708 AW 302

Dep
06:15 06:15 06:30 06:30 07:00 07:30 08:30 11:00 11:30 12:30 14:30 15:00 15:00 06:00 06:15 06:15 06:15 06:15 06:30 06:30 08:00 11:00 11:00 13:30 15:00 15:00 06:15 06:30 06:30 07:00 07:00 10:45 11:00 11:00 12:30 13:30 13:30 14:30 15:00 15:00 06:15 06:15 06:30 06:30 06:30 07:00 10:30 11:00 13:30 15:00 15:00 15:00 06:15 06:30 06:30 06:30 07:00 07:00 11:00 11:00 12:30 15:00 15:00 06:00 06:15 06:15 06:15 06:30 06:30 10:30 10:45 11:30 13:30 15:00 15:00 16:15 06:15 06:15 06:30 06:30 07:00 08:00 11:00 11:00 13:30 15:00 08:35 08:35 08:55 09:35 10:50 13:20 14:10 16:30 16:35 16:45 17:20 18:20 08:30 08:35 08:35 08:55 09:25 09:25 13:25 13:30 13:35 16:20 16:35 16:45 17:20 17:20

Arr
08:20 08:20 07:55 08:35 09:15 08:30 09:55 12:55 12:55 13:55 15:55 16:25 17:00 07:25 07:55 08:20 08:20 08:20 07:55 08:35 09:25 12:40 12:55 14:55 16:25 17:00 08:20 07:50 08:35 08:25 09:15 12:10 12:10 13:10 13:55 14:55 14:55 16:25 17:10 17:00 07:55 08:20 08:35 08:35 08:55 08:25 13:30 12:55 14:55 16:25 17:00 17:10 08:20 07:55 08:35 08:50 08:25 09:15 12:25 12:55 13:55 17:00 17:10 07:25 07:40 07:55 08:20 07:50 07:50 13:30 12:10 12:55 14:55 16:25 17:00 08:20 08:30 08:20 08:35 08:55 09:15 09:25 12:25 12:25 14:55 17:00 10:00 10:30 10:55 11:45 12:15 14:45 15:10 17:55 18:00 20:00 19:25 19:45 09:30 10:00 10:30 10:55 10:50 11:10 14:50 14:55 15:00 17:45 18:40 20:00 18:45 19:25

DAYS Flight
WED W9 009 AW 892 6T 332 6T 402 K7 223 W9 021 6T 802 AW 792 YH 738 AW 752 6T 502 K7 825 W9 009 AW 892 6T 332 AW 902 6T 402 YH 812 W9 021 AW 202 K7 224 YH 730 6T 502 W9 009 AW 892 6T 332 YH 918 6T 402 K7 223 W9 251 AW 212 YH 731 6T 502 W9 232 YH 728 K7 825 6T 404 AW 892 6T 402 W9 011 W9 262 YH 812 6T 802 AW 602 K7 224 YH 730 6T 502 W9 009 YH 910 AW 892 6T 402 W9 011 K7 223 W9 256 YH 812 6T 802 AW 212 YH 738 6T 502 W9 143 AW 891 YH 633 6T 401 YH 917 K7 222 K7 224 W9 143 AW 901 AW 891 6T 401 YH 917 K7 224 W9 143 AW 891 6T 401 K7 222 YH 917 AW 781 AW 891 W9 009 AW 901 6T 401 YH 917 K7 224 AW 891 W9 009 6T 401 YH 917 K7 222 AW 891 6T 403 W9 009 6T 401 YH 917 6T 801 K7 224 W9 143 AW 891 YH 909 W9 009 6T 401 YH 917 K7 222 K7 222 AW 792 W9 109 YH 732 6T 502 K7 225

Dep
08:30 08:35 08:45 08:55 09:35 14:10 15:35 16:40 17:10 17:50 17:20 18:20 08:30 08:35 08:45 08:50 08:55 13:10 14:10 16:00 16:45 17:15 17:20 08:30 08:35 08:45 08:50 08:55 09:35 13:35 16:30 17:10 17:20 17:35 17:45 18:20 08:00 08:35 08:55 09:25 10:50 13:10 15:35 16:40 16:45 17:15 17:20 08:30 08:35 08:35 08:55 09:25 09:35 11:20 13:10 13:30 16:00 17:10 17:20 06:00 06:15 06:15 06:30 06:30 07:00 15:00 06:00 06:15 06:15 06:30 06:30 15:00 06:00 06:15 06:30 07:00 06:30 15:00 06:15 06:30 06:30 06:30 06:30 15:00 06:15 06:30 06:30 06:30 07:00 06:15 06:15 06:30 06:30 06:30 10:30 15:00 06:00 06:15 06:15 06:30 06:30 06:30 07:00 08:40 17:50 17:25 17:55 18:05 18:40

Arr
09:30 10:30 10:10 10:55 11:45 15:10 17:00 18:45 18:35 19:15 19:25 19:45 09:30 10:30 10:10 10:15 10:55 14:35 15:10 17:25 20:00 18:45 19:25 09:30 10:30 10:10 10:45 10:55 11:45 15:00 17:55 19:25 19:25 19:00 19:10 19:45 10:05 10:30 10:55 11:10 12:15 14:35 17:00 18:05 20:00 18:45 19:25 09:30 10:00 10:30 10:55 11:10 11:45 12:45 14:35 14:55 17:25 18:35 19:25 07:20 07:35 07:50 07:50 08:05 08:20 18:20 07:20 07:35 07:35 07:50 08:05 18:20 07:20 07:35 07:50 08:20 08:05 17:10 07:35 07:25 07:50 07:50 08:05 18:20 07:35 07:25 07:50 08:05 08:20 07:35 08:30 07:25 07:50 08:05 11:50 18:20 07:20 07:35 07:50 07:25 07:50 08:05 08:20 11:45 19:10 18:20 19:15 19:25 20:00

DAYS Flight
TUE YH 910 AW 762 W9 109 AW 792 6T 502 YH 732 K7 225 K7 222 W9 109 AW 792 YH 732 6T 502 YH 910 W9 109 YH 732 6T 502 K7 225 K7 222 W9 109 YH 732 6T 502 YH 910 6T 404 W9 109 YH 732 6T 502 K7 225 K7 222 YH 910 W9 109 YH 732 6T 502 W9 255 W9 251 K7 622 K7 622 AW 201 W9 255 W9 251 K7 622 AW 211 W9 255 K7 622 W9 256 W9 252 K7 623 K7 623 AW 202 W9 256 W9 252 K7 623 W9 256 K7 623 K7 222 W9 119 AW 761 YH 727 6T 501 YH 731 K7 224 K7 826 6T 801 W9 115 AW 761 YH 811 6T 501 YH 731 K7 224 AW 911 K7 222 W9 119 YH 737 AW 791 6T 501 YH 731 K7 826 AW 761 AW 201 YH 811 W9 109 6T 501 YH 731 K7 224 K7 222 AW 211 W9 109 6T 501 YH 731 K7 826 AW 751 W9 119 YH 811 6T 501 YH 731 K7 224 K7 222 AW SPL AW 751 W9 115 YH 811 6T 501 YH 731 YH 737

Dep
08:40 17:20 17:25 17:25 18:05 18:10 18:40 08:40 17:25 17:25 17:55 18:05 08:40 17:25 17:55 18:05 18:40 08:40 17:25 17:55 18:05 08:40 08:45 17:25 17:55 18:05 18:40 08:40 08:40 17:25 17:55 18:05 06:30 06:30 13:30 13:30 06:30 06:30 06:30 13:30 06:00 06:30 13:30 09:45 12:05 16:50 16:50 09:35 09:45 12:05 16:50 09:45 16:50 07:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 15:00 15:00 15:00 07:00 08:00 11:00 11:00 11:15 15:00 15:00 15:00 06:30 07:00 11:00 11:00 14:30 15:00 15:00 07:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 14:30 15:00 15:00 15:00 07:00 11:00 14:30 15:00 15:00 07:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 15:00 15:00 15:00 07:00 07:30 10:30 11:00 11:00 15:00 15:00 11:00

Arr
10:00 18:40 18:20 18:45 19:25 19:30 20:00 11:45 18:20 18:45 19:15 19:25 10:00 18:20 19:15 19:25 20:00 11:45 18:20 19:15 19:25 10:00 10:05 18:20 19:15 19:25 20:00 11:45 10:00 18:20 19:15 19:25 09:25 09:25 16:30 16:30 09:20 09:25 09:25 16:30 08:50 09:25 16:30 12:40 15:00 19:50 19:50 12:25 12:40 15:00 19:50 12:40 19:50 10:10 12:10 12:10 12:25 16:10 16:25 17:20 08:15 10:20 12:10 12:10 12:40 16:10 16:25 17:20 08:40 10:10 12:10 12:25 15:40 16:10 16:25 08:15 12:10 12:10 12:25 15:25 16:10 16:25 17:20 10:10 12:10 15:25 16:10 16:25 08:15 12:10 12:10 12:25 16:10 16:25 17:20 10:10 08:40 11:40 12:10 12:25 16:10 16:25 12:25

Dep
09:05 09:20 09:35 09:40 09:45 10:30 16:55 17:40 09:20 09:35 09:40 09:45 16:45 11:15 17:40 09:05 09:20 09:35 09:45 10:30 09:05 09:20 09:35 09:45 11:15 17:40 09:05 09:20 09:35 09:45 10:30 08:55 09:05 09:20 09:35 09:45 11:15 17:15 17:40 08:55 09:20 09:35 09:40 09:45 10:30 16:45 16:45 17:20 11:15 13:00 11:15 13:00 09:00 13:00 11:15 13:00 11:15 13:00 15:00 11:15 13:00 11:15 13:00 15:00 12:55 15:00 12:55 15:00 10:40 15:00 12:55 15:00 12:55 15:00 16:40 12:55 15:00 12:55 16:40 07:00 11:30 07:00 07:00 11:30 07:00 11:30 07:00 11:30 12:45 07:00 07:00 11:30 07:00 08:00 07:00 11:30 12:45 11:50 15:55 09:30 15:55 17:15 09:30 15:55 11:30 11:50 15:55 11:50 15:55 11:50 12:25 11:50 15:55 17:15

Arr
10:15 10:30 10:45 10:35 10:55 11:45 19:10 20:00 10:30 10:45 10:35 10:55 17:55 12:30 20:00 10:15 10:30 10:45 10:55 11:45 10:15 10:30 10:45 10:55 12:30 20:00 10:15 10:30 10:45 10:55 11:45 11:05 10:15 10:30 10:45 10:55 12:30 18:25 20:00 10:05 10:30 10:45 10:35 10:55 11:45 17:55 17:55 18:35 12:40 14:45 12:40 14:45 10:25 14:45 12:40 14:45 12:40 14:45 16:20 12:40 14:45 12:40 14:45 16:20 14:20 16:45 14:20 16:45 12:05 16:45 14:20 16:45 14:55 16:45 18:00 14:20 16:45 14:20 18:00 09:10 13:30 09:05 09:10 13:30 09:10 13:30 09:10 13:30 14:50 09:05 09:10 13:30 09:10 10:00 09:10 13:30 14:50 14:00 17:55 11:40 17:55 19:20 11:40 17:55 13:35 14:00 17:55 14:00 17:55 14:00 14:25 14:00 17:55 19:20

DAYS Flight
MON FD 3771 8M 335 TG 304 PG 702 8M 331 PG 704 FD 3773 TG 306 TUE FD 3771 8M 335 TG 304 PG 702 8M 331 PG 704 FD 3773 TG 306 WED FD 3771 8M 335 TG 304 PG 702 8M 331 PG 704 FD 3773 TG 306 THUR FD 3771 8M 335 TG 304 PG 702 8M 331 PG 704 FD 3773 TG 306 FRI FD 3771 8M 335 TG 304 PG 702 8M 331 PG 704 FD 3773 TG 306 SAT FD 3771 8M 335 TG 304 PG 702 8M 331 PG 704 FD 3773 TG 306 SUN FD 3771 8M 335 TG 304 PG 702 8M 331 PG 704 FD 3773 TG 306

Dep Arr
08:30 10:15 08:50 10:35 09:50 11:45 10:55 12:50 16:30 18:15 16:40 18:35 17:40 19:25 19:45 21:40 08:30 10:15 08:50 10:35 09:50 11:45 10:55 12:50 16:30 18:15 16:40 18:35 17:40 19:25 19:45 21:40 08:30 10:15 08:50 10:35 09:50 11:45 10:55 12:50 16:30 18:15 16:40 18:35 17:40 19:25 19:45 21:40 08:30 10:15 08:50 10:35 09:50 11:45 10:55 12:50 16:30 18:15 16:40 18:35 17:40 19:25 19:45 21:40 08:30 10:15 08:50 10:35 09:50 11:45 10:55 12:50 16:30 18:15 16:40 18:35 17:40 19:25 19:45 21:40 08:30 10:15 08:50 10:35 09:50 11:45 10:55 12:50 16:30 18:15 16:40 18:35 17:40 19:25 19:45 21:40 08:30 10:15 08:50 10:35 09:50 11:45 10:55 12:50 16:30 18:15 16:40 18:35 17:40 19:25 19:45 21:40

DAYS Flight
SAT 8M 231 MI 511 8M 6232 MI 517 SUN 8M 231 MI 511

Dep Arr
08:00 12:25 10:10 14:45 11:25 15:50 16:40 21:15 08:00 12:25 10:10 14:45

DAYS Flight
MON 8M 336 FD 3770 TG 303 PG 701 PG 703 FD 3772 TG 305 8M 332 TUE 8M 336 FD 3770 TG 303 PG 701 PG 703 FD 3772 TG 305 8M 332 WED 8M 336 FD 3770 TG 303 PG 701 PG 703 FD 3772 TG 305 8M 332 THUR 8M 336 FD 3770 TG 303 PG 701 PG 703 FD 3772 TG 305 8M 332 FRI 8M 336 FD 3770 TG 303 PG 701 FD 3772 PG 703 TG 305 8M 332 SAT 8M 336 FD 3770 TG 303 PG 701 PG 703 FD 3772 TG 305 8M 332 SUN 8M 336 FD 3770 TG 303 PG 701 PG 703 FD 3772 TG 305 8M 332

Dep Arr
07:10 07:55 07:10 07:55 07:55 08:50 09:15 10:05 15:00 15:50 16:25 17:10 17:50 18:45 19:25 20:10 07:10 07:55 07:10 07:55 07:55 08:50 09:15 10:05 15:00 15:50 16:25 17:10 17:50 18:45 19:25 20:10 07:10 07:10 07:55 09:15 07:55 07:55 08:50 10:05

DAYS Flight
SAT MI 512 8M 6231 8M 232 MI 518 MI 520 SUN MI 512 8M 232 MI 518 MI 520

Dep Arr
07:55 09:20 09:10 10:35 14:10 15:35 14:20 15:45 15:20 16:40 07:55 09:20 14:10 15:35 14:20 15:45 15:20 16:40

YANGON TO MANDALAY

HEHO TO YANGON

YANGON TO BANGKOK

BANGKOK TO YANGON

WED

TUE

THUR

8M 233
MI 517

14:15 18:40
16:40 21:15

THUR

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Philippine food emerges from shadows

By Karl Malakunas ANGELES CITY, Philippines Claude Tayag sees himself as a food missionary, hoping to convert people at home and abroad to the secret cuisine wonders of the Philippines. The Southeast Asian nations table-fare has long suffered a poor reputation internationally compared with its regional neighbours. Across the world, Indian curry houses compete with Vietnamese noodle soup shops or Chinese dim sum restaurants in offering a taste of Asian food, but there are comparatively very few places serving Filipino dishes. Back home, many locals also undoubtedly prefer their meals fast and cheap in the style of their former American colonial rulers with deep-fried chicken and hamburger chains dominating the food scene. But standing in his kitchen over a huge pot of pork bone marrow slowly simmering in a traditional adobo-style mix of vinegar, soy sauce and garlic, Tayag insists Philippine food can wow as much as any other in Asia. Its a very misunderstood cuisine. Firstly, Filipino cuisine is so diverse, Tayag says as he stirs the pork that he is preparing for dozens of guests who have gathered at his home. You cannot explain it in one sentence. You need a whole day, a whole month to talk about it. Tayag, an artist, writer and chef, has turned his rustic home a couple of hours drive north of Manila into an informal restaurant, where diners feast on a 10course meal that takes them on a culinary tour of the archipelago. The lunchtime extravaganza lasts for three foods, the malls, and all that. You know, the American lifestyle, he says. Tayag, who has written or co-authored three books promoting Filipino food, has won some international recognition for his efforts, with celebrity American chef Anthony Bourdain featuring him on his television show No Reservations. Bourdain appeared genuinely enthusiastic with Tayags varied dishes, and also with a trip to the central Philippine city of Cebu where he tasted one of the countrys favourite meals whole roasted pig. Raving about its crispy skin and juicy meat, Bourdain rated the pork known as lechon as the best he had eaten on his many journeys around the world, ranking it just ahead of the version found in Indonesias Bali. F o r Ta y a g , s u c h recommendations are proof that the Philippines can one day rate alongside the likes of Thailand and Malaysia as one of Southeast Asias famed food destinations. You always hear why Filipino cuisine hasnt made it internationally, like our Asian neighbours. Well basically its just not understood very well, he says. Asked to describe Filipino food, Tayag says it does not necessarily have the obviously bold, intense flavours like spicy Indian or hot Thai dishes. Our flavours are more nuanced theres a nuance of sweet, sour, salty and bitter, he says. Tayag then explains one of his favourite expressions to describe how people in the Philippines feel when they eat the food they love linamnam. Linamnam, which has no direct translation in English, refers to a thrill, an excitement, a tingling sensation. AFP Oct 23 - Nov 21

Seafood kare-kare, a peanut-based delicacy with giant tiger prawn, squid, mussels and string beans partnered with shrimp paste and cooked by chef Claude Tayag in Angeles, Pampanga, on March 17. Pic: AFP hours and one version of his menu starts with an eclectic trio of dips fermented rice, crab fat and a pesto made from the native pili nut. It ends with a Filipino version of the Italian panna cotta made from carabaos milk, which has a higher fat content and is thus richer than that produced by cows. In between, grilled chicken is served after being marinated in lemongrass and a local lime-like citrus fruit called calamansi. Throughout the afternoon diners wash down their food with jugs of ice-cold tea made from calamansi juice, ginger, lemongrass and honey. A particular highlight for diners is when they crowd around Tayag to take photos as he prepares a pork dish called sisig that sizzles and pops on a frying pan. Po p u l a r p a r t i c u l a r l y among late-night beer drinkers around the Philippines, sisig is made of finely chopped pigs ears and cheeks. Tayag serves it with boiled chicken livers, calamansi extract, white onion, salt and chilli. Bookings often have to be made weeks in advance for the restaurant that Tayag runs with his effervescent wife, Mary Ann, who entertains the guests as hostess with in-depth descriptions of all the dishes. Ta y a g , 5 5 , s a y s h i s restaurants popularity is testament to a small but developing food culture in the Philippines. In every major province, there are people like us, working for the preservation and the propagation of slowcooked food, Tayag says. And one can say theres a rediscovery of Filipino cuisine its come about slowly with the emergence of high-end Filipino restaurants in Manila, but also the cable TV travel and cooking shows. And the food bloggers. Indeed, 15 years ago restaurants serving topend versions of traditional Filipino food were a rarity Leo in Manila, let alone in outof-the way locations such as Tayags home in Angeles City. Nowadays propelled also by a fast-growing middle class Filipino restaurants are starting to feature much more in the Philippines major cities. N e v e r t h e l e s s , Ta y a g acknowledges that US-style junk food remains the most popular option for most of the nearly 100 million Filipinos when they choose to dine out, particularly the poor masses who need cheap options. We n e e d t o c r e a t e awareness. We are fast losing our traditional ways with the onslaught of these fast Scorpio

YOUR STARS
By Astrologer Aung Myin Kyaw Aquarius Jan 20 - Feb 18

congratulate you on your ethical stance. Be courageous enough to pursue love in its most beautiful state.

Taurus

Whatever faults you might have, you are too reluctant to give confession or seek forgiveness. But understand that confession is a necessary part of repentance and of making amends. The universe does not favour those who are not sincere or honest. Cultivate the ground where you plan to establish roots. Be inventive in your love life.

Good fences make good neighbours. To keep love alive you must maintain boundaries, and remember that the occasional solitude that love requires should not to be confused with detachment. Dont occupy yourself with worries that will automatically be resolved with the passing of time. Strengthen family relations by taking individual responsibility for your role among your relatives.

April 20 - May 20

You should remain unmoved by blame and praise, as a solid rock remains unmoved by the wind. Apt speech is that which hurts neither yourself nor others. Accept everything that comes your way according to its own nature, but keep a careful watch for the unexpected. Act with honour and you will soon play a greater role in your social circle. Keep love on track through mutual understanding and sincerity.

July 23 - Aug 22

Your relentless pursuit of tough goals will have an impact on friends and family. It is important to understand how to motivate yourself: Your courage and strong determination are real strengths that you should embrace throughout your life. During this period you should remain focused on your professional goals, and dedicate less energy to social relationships and matters of the heart.

Virgo

Gemini

Pisces

Promise to devote the time, energy and care necessary to forge a bond of purpose and pleasure strong enough to withstand separation, periods of disillusionment and fires of anger. Friendships will suffer from misfortune. Communication channels will close and new opportunities will keep out of your sight. Be careful to live within the bounds of the law.

Feb 19 - Mar 20

Change and impermanence are unavoidable facts of life. Dont make companions with a fool whose mind is in disorder. A healthy mind in good order is very important in life, and it is your first duty to manage yourself using your knowledge and wisdom. Working to transform ones nature from self-centred, self-indulgent and self-righteous into a harmonious personality will make everything easier and open new possibilities.

May 21 - June 20

Try to have a goal to work towards in your life, and set yourself new challenges. When you come to the end of a particular focus in your life, whether you achieved your goal or failed, it is imperative to replace it with another challenge. Goal-setting is essential and you should appreciate where you are going as well as getting there. The key to success is living an extraordinary life that sets you apart from ordinary people.

Aug 23 - Sept 22

Sagittarius

Fear is a powerful motivator but it can also cause one to make decisions that are unjust. The great challenge is to have a clear goal that will have positive outcomes in many different areas. Society places a premium on winning, but dont ruin your health or take unnecessary risks in your pursuit of victory. Picking the low-hanging fruits or going for the easy wins should be your priority for the time being. Love will encourage you.

Nov 22 - Dec 21

Capricorn

Libra

Cancer

Aries

Be suspicious of change merely for the sake of change. Use your communication skills as your secret weapon in professional and social relationships. Maintain the moral high ground during all negotiations, and people will

March 21 - April 19

Try to become an unprejudiced person, and you will find it easier to make tough but unbiased decisions. There is great power in your ability to speak the right words at the right time, and you also have a strong mind that is able to deal with change and use it to your advantage. Maintain your beliefs despite interference. Have faith in the power of the love that exists between you and your partner.

June 22 - July 22

Remember the words of Greek philosopher Epictetus: We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. Poor listening skills can lead to misunderstanding and damaged relationships. The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that you can manage others through your words alone. Dont allow your professional pursuits to suffer under an overfull social calendar.

Sept 23 - Oct 22

Dont waste time feeling bitter about past events. You must tackle the unknown to make progress. Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life, so make sure all your decisions are positive and all your goals are worthy but achievable. You are never too old to set another new social standard or to dream a new dream. You will be up to the challenges.
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HOME TUTION japanese language regular course (basic, inter) jpn going course, myanmar language for japanese. 09-420055323. ENGLISH study with reading literature and short stories can be learnt here. ESL study for beginner and intermediate students are available. The student treat with film for the listening practice, academic essay writing , biography writing etc & also Critical reading, If you had tried as much as you can to follow the lesson & with skill you got good experiences. This program will help you capability and fill your luck of know-ledge... Academic Spanish can also be inquired here. U Thant Zin : ph 09 5035350 , 01 547442. No:28 - 3 B, Thatipahtan St, Tamwe. RUSSIAN : speaking , reading, writing. ph; 09731-61269. PRIVATE Myanmar Language classes for foreigners who live in Myanmar. Progressive and effective teaching systems are available. For details, pls contact to keencentre @gmail. com. HOME TUTION japanese language regular course (basic, inter) jpn going course, myanmar language for japanese, japanese

Expert Service
ENGLISH to MYANMAR, is available...Ph : 09-420070692. REAL ESTATE Agent If youre an expatriate needing to find an apartment or house in Yangon, Min Thu can help. He has experience and is very reliable. Call Min Thu on 09-731-38659 or email :thecleverson@ gmail.com REAL ESTATE or Landhousing investment in Myanmar. We coor-dinately invite Myanmar citizens or nons to cooperate with us as w will take responsibilities with our citizenship scrutiny For those who interest & want to cooperate with us may contact Bryan (Bryan) 09-420-07 0692, Htet Oo Lwin (Engineer) 09-215-0075. CONSTRUCTION: We have skilled civil Construction workers and Engineers. (R.C.C. & Steel Structure) S Civil Engineering (Science 1990) Ph: 09-500-5817. LICENSED Tour Guide English - Italian - Malay. Khine Tint (O) Gianni. No.11, 5th Flr (Left), Kyun Taw Kyaung St, Kyun Taw Ward (South),

Travel
CHAUNG THA vacation stay at a wooden house for a family for a very cheap price. 3 nigths, 4 days - 30,000 kyats per night Maximum 5 people. Need to bring your own beddings and kitchen wares. Contact - 561899 ext-119. Additional fee of 5000 - 10,000 kyats involved for cleaning fee. Only house and compound with a fence offered.

Rent / Sale
BAHAN, Moe Myint San Condo, 2400 sqft, 2 MB, 1 BR, newly apartment f.f or no furn. 3 A/C, Lift, 15 Lakhs for rent, 3000 Lakhs for sale. Owner Maureen : 09- 518-8320. No agents pls.

Want To Hire
NEw ZEALAND businessman seeking apartment/condo/house sharing arrangement with one or two other people. Ph: 09-410-11547.

General
CLARION Tnternational Sandar@Sonia : Managing Partner : Ph: 09-43122557. ISO 90012008 certification Event Management, Travel & Tourism, Matrimony Services, Training &

Employment
UN Position
THE UNITED NATIONS World Food Programme Myanmar: WFP Myanmar is seeking the qualified candidates for the below position: Human Resources Assistant- 1 post: GradeGS-5, Duty StationYangon: University degree holder. AT least 4 years of progressively respon-sible support or secretarial work experience including at least two years in the field of human resources or other related field and at least one your at the G4 level or equivalent. Qualifi-ed & interested persons are requested to send the applications with UN P-11 form to Human Resources Unit, World Food Programme, 3rd Flr, Inya Lake Hotel, 37 Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd, Yangon, P.O. Box 650 (or) email to Myanmar. vacancy@ wfp.org Closing date : 16 May 2012. computer literate with Micorsoft Office park (works, excel, power point, etc...) Effective English and Myanmar language (oral & written). (2) Database Office 1 post : Bachelor degree or Bachelor of Computer Science/ Technology or Certified in related field. Excellent skills in designing & managing databases. Excellent in Microsoft Access and/ or other relevant database applications. Good in English and Myanmar. Pls submit a letter of application, relevant documents & CV, Copy of Recommen dation letter from Township police station, Copy of labor registration card, Copy of good health certificate from Township health centre and one passport photo (Cover letter CV documents only need to be send via e-mail) to U Khin Maung Hla, Executive Director, Myanmar Red Cross Society, Nay Pyi Taw before 18th May 2012. MEDECINS du Monde (MDM) is looking (1) Project officer - 1 Post in Pyapon : H.A/ M.B.,B.S. Advance diploma/ degree in public health would be advantage. Experience working in PHC and MCH project, preferably with 2 years experience in int'l organization. Excellent skills in Myanmar. Fluent in English especially speaking & writing. Fluent in English 4 skills is preferable. Knowledge of the rural areas of Pyapon tsp. (2) Field Nurse 1 Post in Pyapon: Nursing Diploma or midwife. B.N.Sc or degree in Public Health (Health Assistant). Experience working in position field nurse preferably with an int'l organization. Fair listening, spoken and writing skill English is preferable. Computer knowledge. Pls submit CV and a cover letter to MDM Country Coordi-nation Office : 47-B, Po Sein St, Bahan, Yangon, Ph: 542830, Email: hr.mdm myanmar@gmail. com SOLIDARITES is looking for (1) Administrative & Finance Manager in Kanpelet, Chin State: University level or equivalent in accounting/ management/ administration.Previous experience: 2 years in a similar position with NGO. Excellent know-ledge of word & excel, knowledge of account-ing software SAGA & HR software HOMERE is a plus. Knowledge of logistics procedures. Fluent spoken & written English and Myanmar. Duty station will be in Kanpelet with frequent field visit/ support to sub-offices & projects intervention area. (2) Administrative & Finance supervisor in Kanpelet, Chin State: University level or equivalent in accounting/ management/ administration.Previous experience: 1 year in a similar position with NGO or private sector. Excellent knowledge of word & excel. Working knowledge in English & Myanmar. Good writing & communication skills. Duty station will be in Kyein Dwe with possible field visits in the projects intervent-ion area. Pls submit application (CV, cover letter, references) by email : hr.solidarites. mm@gmail. com. Closing date: 30 May 2012 (1)DRR Education Training Officer - (DM Division_DRR Unit)- 1 post : Selected townships for the DRR MRCS/FRC Program (2) Admin & finance Officer(Health Division) - 1 post : Tauggyi with frequent visit to HQ Nay Pyi Taw and project townships.(3)Consultant (Health Division) - 1 post, Naypyitaw. Pls submit CV , passport phto with other docu-ments to Myanmar Red Cross Society (Naypyi-taw) mrcshrrecruitment @ gmail. com must have at least 2 years related experience with good attitude. (3) Receptionists - 2 posts (4) waiter/waitress - 2 posts. For Position 3 & 4 must have at least 1 year experience in hotel fields. Application letter by email to operations @ savoyhotel-yangon. com or 129, Dhamma-zedi Rd, Yangon. Tel: (95-1) 526298, 526289. CHINA HARBOR Engineering Company Ltd., (CHEC) is looking for (1) Marketing Manager - M 1 post: Master Degree in Business Management. Native English speaker prevail. 4 or 5 years experience in similar position with civil works background. Age between 30 ~ 40. (2) Commercial Assistant M/F 1 post: Bachelor of LLB. Speaking & writing perfect English. (3) Senior Interpreter - M/F 1 post: Bachelor Degree in any Major. Speaking & writing good English & Chinese. Age under 35. (4) Civil Engineer - M 2 posts: Bachelor Degree in Civil works or Marine Engineering.Two or more experienceinsimilarfields. Language: Trilingual Chinese, Myanmar & English. Pls email your resumes enclosed with recent personal colorful photos to eingyin. chec@ gmail.com or deliver to 40, Natmauk Rd, Chatrium Hotel, Rm 617, 626 Tamwe, Yangon within 20 days of the publication. Pls contact 09-493-42921. ENERGETIC LAwYER (M/F) With LLB, LLM degree qualified as higher grade pleader Foreign Law degree is preferred Strong command of English for working in international firm specializing in business law Expect significant interaction with foreign clients Computer skills (Micro-soft office) required Outstanding opportuni-ty with competitive salary package Submit CV to suhlaing07@ gmail.com Tel: 540995, 556692. A NEw Inbound company is looking for highly motivated and energetic candidates. (1) Operations Manager M/F 1 post : Age 30 ~ 50 years. Computer literate. Holder of a Bachelor degree. Must have good knowledge about the tour destinations in Myanmar. Musthavegoodleadership skills. 5 years experience in Tourism field. (2) Sales Person M/F 2 post : Age 20 ~ 35 years. Computer literate. Must be able to corresponds with foreign tour operator in English. (3) Reservations Staff M/F 2 post : Age 20 ~ 35 years. Computer literate. Please send your CV with expected salary to: Unit 230, Summit Parkview Hotel, Ahlone Rd, Yangon. Closing date: 25 May 2012. A wELL established medical equipment company is looking for highly motivated engineer to fill in the service engineer : Possess Bachelor degree in engineering (electronics). Have good command of both written & spoken English. Be willing to travel within Myanmar and abroad, Be self-motivated and have good interpersonal skill. Be under 30 years of age. Interested person can submit their C.V along with recent photograph & contact number to Shwe Padauk Condominium #2C, No.99A, Myay Nu St, Sanchaung , Ph: 532225, 532226 Ext: 835, (Within 10 days ). THE CHINTHE Track: is a young, dynamic and fast-growing inbound tour open in Yangon is linked up with of a foreign-based travel part network with own operation offices across the Indochina & Myanmar region, and with an own global sales network spanning Europe, Russia & South East Asia and is current looking to fill the positions at its Yangon head office, (1) Sales ReservationsManagerM/F, 30 years old. Fluent in English (spoken & written): any other foreign language is a benefit. Well organized. Able to take initiative and to work together in a team On-the-job experience in operations of at least 1 years required: (2) Reservation & Operations Staff- M/ F, 22 years old. Good knowledge of English (spoken & written): any other foreign language is a benefit. Well organized. Able to work together in a team. Onthe-job experience in reservations of at least 2 years in similar position preferred; candidates with less practice experience can also apply; Pls send along with a full and updated resume including a recent passport-sized photo to The Chinthe Track, C/O Daw Thin Thin Htaik, Finance & HR Manager, Sedona Hotel, Level 2, Latha Rm 1, Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd, Yankin . A HIGH-END Prestige Cafe in the middle of Yangon is looking for capable and diligent team with premium s a l a r y. E x p e r i e n c e s and extra languages are welcomed to fill in the position as follows: welcoming staff 2 posts at 150,000 ks/mth Service staff 10 posts at 35,000 ks/mth Sue chef 5 posts at 50,000 ks/mth Cleaning staff 2 posts at 30,000 ks/mth Security 2 posts at 50,000 ks/mth. Ph : 09- 4200 52478 , 09-5250936 E-mail : khamla9 @ gmail.com ESTABLISHED Multi NationalCompanylooking for Office Manager/ Assistant to set up office in Yangon. Good pay. Require-ments: Excellent english required. At least 4 yrs exp. College degree. Self motivated. Good in Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint. Pls email CV to netorres@ mpic. com. ph or call +95.951.70204 (1) RESERVATION for hotel flight 1 post Female - 2 year experience in travel agency. (2) Admin & Guest relation staff 1 post Male/ Female- Who can speak English very well, two-year experience in travel agency. Pls contact AZURE SKY Travel. Rm No (02-01)Asia Plaza Complex. Seikkan Thar St, Kyauktada, Ph: 379304, 703526. EXOTISSIMO Travel Myanmar is currently looking for Tour Operator: to corres-pond with overseas tour operator, travel agents and individial clients and prepare and submit tailor make itineraries and take care of all travel arrangements as necessary. Requirements : 2 years experience in tourism related field is preferred. Should have strong sales & customer service focus. Must possess computer proficiency and good communication in English. Pls send a detailed C.V with recent photo, expected salary & other relevant documents to: HR Manager, Exotissimo Travel Myanmar, Rm 0303, Sakura Tower, Email: memecho@ exotissimo. com fOREIGN company will establish a milk dairy production in Myanmar and is looking for a young dynamic market-ing sales manager. Also a executive secretary both fluent English speaking with good knowledge and skills in computers lady or gents,who is willing to work hard and grow with the company. The benefits will be satisfactory Forward your C.V Attention Chris Karageorges with a photo and contact telephone number: email : asiadairies@ yahoo.com, SKYPE doncristo6 THE KMA Hotels Group is looking the following positions with people who can work efficiently and aggressively and comply with the asked requirements; Yangon (1)Assistant Sales Manager 1 post. (2) Sales Executive 1 post. (3) Financial Controller 1 post. (4) Deputy Finance Manager 1 post. (5) General Cashier 1 post. Naypyitaw (1) f&B Manager 1 post. Bagan (1) Housekeeping Manager 1 post. (2) Assistant Security Manager 1 post. (3) Assistant Chief Engineer. 115 Miles. Phyu (1) Accountant 1 post. (2) Housekeeping Supervisor 1 post. Taungoo (1) Jr.waiter 2 post. (2) Bartender 1 post. (3) Gym Instructor 1 post. (4) Security Staff 3 post. Inle (1) Accountant 2 post. Pls submit application with a resume to the Human Resources Department of KMA Hotels Group Office at Sayar San Plaza at the corner of Sayar San Rd and New University Avenue Rd, Tel: 951401480~1. OUR CLIENTS are looking for the following positions; Sales & Marketing director with experienced in Tourism and Consumer market sales & Marketing staff in chemical & consumer market Secretaries with English fluency and experiencesAccountant at least with LCCI III. Pls send CV to resumefree. bank @gmail.com in word or pdf format. A MULTINATIONAL Advertising Agency is Hiring! Young, Dynamic & Dedicated Professionals Who have the Right Appetite to Grow with us in Myanmar apply with detailed CV & recent photograph to: headhunting41@gmail. com Creative Writer: With a flair for creative writing in Burmese and a good command on English, our creative writer will be responsible for churning out award winning original copy with the ability to give English Copy his own brand of originality in the native language. Media Planner: A dynamic professional with good connections with the local media and the requisite experience for plann-ing effective media plans. Client Service Executive: Smart, ambitious, dynamic young men and women with experience in marketing and brand management will be responsible for day to day liaison with client and work as an extension of the clients Brand management team. Receptionist: Not just a pretty face (though the pretty face is a requisite). Efficient, punctual with a pleasant personality & a good enough command over English as well as Burmese. DAPPER is seeking (1) Marketing Executive -1 post : Myanmar National, Any Graduate or MBA is higher Degree (MBA is preferable), Age between 25 to 30 years old, 2 years experience in related field with Int'l, Must be able to travel (Domestic / Abroad) and excellent public relation skills. (2) Management Trainee -3 posts : Myanmar National, Age 20 ~ 27 years, Graduate with (B.Com/ B.Econ/ B.B.A/ B.B.M), Must have good practice on Mathematic & Knowledge of Microsoft office sorfware package. All candidates above must have: Good communication skill, Strong negotiation skill, Analytical skill, Initiative skill, Good in health & pleasant personality, Willingness to travel and work in difficult setting, Able to work as gracefully under pressure, Be proficient in both English & Myanmar languages, Computer literate. Pls send CV together with copies of academic certificates, Original & Update police clearan-ce form, a copy of Family registration. form (10), 1 passport sized photo and a copy of NRC to : HR Manager. Business Development Team. Creation (Myanmar) Co.,Ltd : 15~18, Thamain Bayan Rd, Myittar Yeik Mon Housing, Tarmwe Ph: 09-202-7604. Email: bdthrmanager@ goldenland.com.mm wE wELCOME applications from motivated people for the following vacancies at our international education group? Registrar. Admin Managers/ HR Manager. Education Counsellors. Course Co-ordinators. Secre-taries. Marketing Manager/ Executives. Accounts Officers. Admin Assistants. Receptionist. Require ments: High level of motivation. Pleasant personality. Good command of English for senior posts. Excellent social & communications skills. Good MS Office & Internet skills. Pls post CV with a colour photo, expected salary, educational documents, & testimonials to: Regent Education Group. B-13+18, Shwe Keinayee Estate, Narnattaw St, Kamar-yut, Ph: 514101. AYER SHwE wAH Co., is seeking (1) Health & Safety Officer - M/F 1 post : Possess technical or engineering diploma / degree, have received approved safety course and training with an institution, Knowledge in HR Management, 7 ~ 8 years experience in manufacturing & construction industry with a large company, Age 25 ~ 40, Good English writing & speaking skills essential, Good communication skills & strict in enforcing discipline. (2) Corporate Sales & Marketing Manager M/F 1 Post : Possess a good University degree in any discipline, have Marketing Diploma preferred. 5 years selling experience in consumer goods with a large Company & experience in leading a team. Age 25 ~ 35 years. Excellent English written and oral communication skills & interpersonal skills. (3) IT Manager - M/F 1 post: Possess B.C.Sc, MCSE, CCNA, Microsoft SQL Server, have CCNP, Micorsoft VB, Microsoft ASP.Net, Linux preferr-ed. 5 years experience in IT Field & 3 years experience in IT Management.Excellent English written and oral communication skills & interpersonal skills.Age 25 ~ 35. Typically experience in MS windows servers envi-ronment & infrastructure. Pls submit CV with 3 recent photos, labor registration card, copy of NRC, copy of educational certifi-cates, copy of household registration & recommendation letter from police station to : HR Department, Bldg A-10, Min Dhamma Rd, Shwe Kabar Housing, Mayan-gone, Ph: 656832, 656835. IHOST Myanmar is seeking (1) Marketing & Sales Executive 2 posts : Must have skills for Web: Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Enthusiasm, both written and verbal. Enthusiasm, drive and determination, with a strong desire to meet targets. (2) web Designer 1 post: Must have skills for web designer: 2 years commercial design experience, ideally at least 8 months web design experiences. Very skilled in Photoshop. (3) Front -end web Developer 1 post: Must have skills for web developer: 1 year commercial web development experiences. Solid experience in developing with HTML, CSS, Javascript and jQuery. Team player who can work under pressure; flexible and can deliver on schedule. (4) PHP developer 2 posts : Must have skills for PHP developer: 2 years commercial development experiences with PHP. Solid experience in developing in a Unix/ Linux or LAMP environment. Strong database experience. Know-ledge of object oriented design and development. A very competitive salary will be paid for all positions based on skills and experience. Rm 010-A, Bldg B, Hnin Si Lane, Narnattaw Rd, Highway Complex, Kamayut. Ph: 5152331, +959 421084306. QUALITY Control Surveyor Civil Engineer ( or ) Diploma in Civil Engineering 1 person Contact Ph: 09 -73094957 wE ARE looking for sale girl - 2 posts : speak English & Chinese languages, must have any graduate, age is 19 year, 23 years, prefer location is 8 mile,9 mile 10 mile and downtown area in Yangon. Ph: 09516-7734. LEO Medicare 24hour Medical Assistance Service : Our organization is 24 hour medical assistant company; operating 24 hour international medical center, 24 hour diagnostics centre, 24 hour daycare centre, 24 hour assistant service and remote site medical services in Myanmar. Our organi-zation is looking for efficient & competent employees for follow-ing positions. For all posts require mandatory criteria of minimum 2 to 5 years working experience in related job, computer skills, language proficiency for both Myanmar and English. (1). Receptionist - F 2 posts : Any graduate with good communi-cation skills & good personality, Prefer multilingual candidate (Chinese, Japanese, Korea) (2). Marketing Manager/ Marketing Executive - M/F 2 posts : Medical Doctor (or) Medical Technolo-gist (or) Pharmacist, Able to travel within country (3). Clinic Manager - M/F 1 post: Medical Doctor (or) Nurse (4). Graphic Designer cum Admin Assistant - M/F 1 post: Any graduate with creative thinking, Candidate with avail-able driving license in favor. (5). Site Medical Officer - M 20 posts : Medical doctor with 5 years experience, Prefer any candidate who has experienced in Oil and Gas (onshore & offshore), mining industries & construct-ion industries. Age not older than 55 years Requirements:Applicant should submit application letter, current CV with passport size photo, contact details, copy of professional license, certificates, referees and copy of any testimonies in a sealed envelope indicating Position applied to LEO Medicare Medical Center , G Flr, Yangon Int'l Hotel, Ahlone Rd, Dagon Tsp, Yangon. Fax: (951) 218389, E-mail: leo.myn@gmail. com,ops@leo.com.mm Closing date: 15.5.2012

Overseas
THE PERSON who want to work in Malaysia as a Management Executive. Requirement : Bachelor Degree from any field (preferably from Business Management) : Bilingual in English and Mandarin is a must Industry : Private school Job Function: Manage-ment Executive Salary: : Range from RM 1,800 to RM 2,000. Employ-ment Type: Full Time : Accommodation provided. a two-year contract Interested applicants pls email resume in confidence to: boatboat25@ gmail. com or enquiry to 09-49211304, 09-739-02015.

INGO Position
BURNET Institute Myanmar (BI-MM) is an Int'l Non Governmental Organization, which seeks dedicated person for the positions of Finance & Accounting Manager & Technical Specialist for Maternal & Child Health Program. Finance Manager position is responsible for the overall maintenance of a transparent and accurate financial management system and running of office financial matters. Technical Specialist position is responsible for providing technical expertise in area of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Program across Burnet Institute Myanmar & collaborating with technical working group of relevant Government agencies, UN, INGOs & NGOs. Detailed information could be seen at the notice board of Burnet office. Pls submit an application letter & CV to the HR Department at Burnet Institute office : 226, 2nd flr, Wizaya Plaza, U Wisara Rd, Bahan or by email to burnet. myanmar @ gmail.com Closing date: 28 May 2012. MALTESER Int'l is looking for an efficient, motivated & experienced person to fill the position of a ICT Officer / Database Administrator for Maungdaw, Northern Rakhine State : Bachelor degree or Bachelor of Computer Science/Technology or Int'l Certified in related field. Excellent skills in designing & managing databases. Excellent in Microsoft Access, SQL, VB and/or other relevant database applications. Good in English, Myanmar. Pls submit application incl. CV, 2 photos, copies of educational certificate, National ID, & references to the Malteser Maungdaw Office: Myo Thit, Ward 4, Maungdaw Email: hr.malteser. nrs01@gmail. com (or) Malteser Buthi-daung Office: Oggar Pyan St, Ward (4), Buthidaung (or) Malteser Int'l Country Office: # 14-15 (6F), Pyi Taw Aye Yeik Thar St, Yankin , Yangon. Email: hr.co.malteser@ gmail. com Closing date: 22nd May, 2012. MYANMAR Red Cross Society is seeking (1) Disaster Risk Reduction Program Coordinator - 1 post : Univeristy degree and Diploma related to the position. 5 years experiences related to the position (DRR/ Management field). Must have very good

Local Position
NATURE TRAVELS & Tours, an established tour operator in Yangon is seeking suitable candidates for the position of: Sales & Reservations Consul-tants : Excellent English language skills & interpersonal communication. PC literate with Outlook, Excel and Word skills . Attention to detail. Minimum 1 to 2 years of experience in the travel industry, preferably with experience of working for a tour operator. Passion for travel and sharing Myanmar culture . Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines for requests. This is a full time role and salary will be commensurate with experience. Interested applicants, pls apply via email with an updated resume, which should include current and expected salaries, date of availability and a recent photograph to:email: admin@ myanmarnaturetour. com, and adm. trails. myanmar @gmail.com Ph: 01-255620. INTERNATIONAL law firm seeking qualified lawyers as well as legal assistants. Lawyers would hold LLB, LLM and possibly foreign law degree. Legal assistant would have business experience and be able to act autonomously. Strong command of English required due to significant interaction with foreign clients. Outstandingopportunity with competitive salary package. Submit CV to suhlaing07@gmail.com Tel: 540995, 556692, 556407 DRIVER (For Foreign Company): More than 5 years driving experience of the company and delivery of the products. Can speak English. Maintenance of vehicles knowledge is required. Age under 45 Place of residence: near Aung San Stadium, Mingalar Taung Nyunt, Yankin, Bahan, Tarmwe, Latha, Lanmadaw, Tharketa. Address: F-13~15, Aung San Stadium (North Wing), Mingalar Taung Nyunt, Yangon. Ph: 393051, 394824. < OPERATION STAffMyanmar.doc> <Accountant.doc> <Cargo Sales ManagerMyanmar.doc> Pls log on to the website below for further information and application.Alternatively, you can email your resumes to info @ bewelllimited.com or call 01-377151, 01-389524 ext:80643 SAVOY HOTEL is urgently looking for (1) Electrical Officer - 1 post : must have at least 5 years related experience. (2) Electricians - 2 posts:

The Essentials
EMBASSIES Australia 88, Strand Road, Yangon. tel : 251810, 251797, 251798, 251809, 246462, 246463, fax: 246159 Bangladesh 11-B, Than Lwin Road, Yangon. tel: 515275, 526144, fax: 515273, email: bdootygn@mptmail.net. mm Brazil 56, Pyay Road, 6th mile, Hlaing Tsp, Yangon. tel: 507225, 507251, 507482. fax: 507483. email: Administ.yangon@ itamaraty.gov.br. Brunei 317/319, U Wizara Road, Sanchaung Tsp, Yangon. tel: 526985, 524285, fax: 512854 email: bruneiemb@ bruneiemb.com.mm Cambodia 25 (3B/4B), New University Avenue Road, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. tel: 549609, 540964, fax: 541462, email: RECYANGON @mptmail. net.mm China 1, Pyidaungsu Yeiktha Road, Yangon. tel: 221280, 221281, 224025, 224097, 221926, fax: 227019, 228319 Egypt 81, Pyidaungsu Yeiktha Road, Yangon. tel: 222886, 222887, fax: 222865, email: egye mbyangon@mptmail. net.mm France 102, Pyidaungsu Yeiktha Road, Yangon. tel: 212178, 212520, 212523, 212528, 212532, fax: 212527, email: ambaf rance. rangoun@ diplomatie.fr Germany 9, Bogyoke Aung San Museum Road, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. tel: 548951, 548952, fax: 548899 email: info@rangun. diplo.de India 545-547, Merchant Street, Yangon. tel: 391219, 388412, 243972, fax: 254086, 250164, 388414, email: indiaembassy @mptmail. net.mm Indonesia 100, Pyidaungsu Yeiktha Road, Yangon. tel: 254465, 254469, 229750, fax: 254468, email: kukygn @indonesia.com.mm Israel 15, Khabaung Street, Hlaing Tsp, Yangon. tel: 515115, fax: 515116, email: info@ yangon.mfa.gov.il Italy 3, Inya Myaing Road, Golden Valley, Yangon. tel: 527100, 527101, fax: 514565, email: ambyang.mail@ esteri.it Japan 100, Natmauk Road, Yangon. tel: 549644-8, 540399, 540400, 540411, 545988, fax: 549643 Embassy of the State of Kuwait Chatrium Hotel, Rm: No.416, 418, 420, 422, 40 Natmauk Rd, Tarmwe Tsp, Tel: 544500. North Korea 77C, Shin Saw Pu Road, Sanchaung Tsp, Yangon. tel: 512642, 510205, fax: 510206 South Korea 97 University Avenue, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. tel: 527142-4, 515190, fax: 513286, email: hankuk@ kore mby.net.mm Lao A-1, Diplomatic Quarters, Tawwin Road, Dagon Tsp, Yangon. tel: 222482, fax: 227446, email: Laoembcab@ mptmail. net.mm Malaysia 82, Pyidaungsu Yeiktha Road, Yangon. tel: 220248, 220249, 220251, 220230, fax: 221840, email: mwkyangon@mptmail. net.mm Nepal 16, Natmauk Yeiktha, Yangon. tel: 545880, 557168, fax: 549803, email: nepemb @mptmail.net.mm Pakistan A-4, diplomatic Quarters, Pyay Road, Yangon. tel: 222881 (Chancery Exchange) fax: 221147, email: pakistan@ myanmar. com.mm Philippines 50, Sayasan Road, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. tel: 558149-151, fax: 558154, email: p.e. yangon@gmail.com Russian 38, Sagawa Road, Yangon. tel: 241955, 254161, fax: 241953, email: rusinmyan@mptmail .net.mm Serbia No. 114-A, Inya Road, P.O.Box No. 943Yangon. tel: 515282, 515283, fax: 504274, email: serbemb@ yangon.net.mm Singapore 238, Dhamazedi Road, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. tel: 559001, fax: 559002, 559922, email: singemb_ ygn@_ sgmfa. gov.sg Sri Lanka 34 Taw Win Road, Yangon. tel: 222812, fax: 221509, email: slembassy. yangon@gmail.com, info@slembyangon.org, www.slembyangon.org Thailand 94 Pyay Road, Dagon Township, Yangon. tel: 226721, 226728, 226824, fax: 221713 United Kingdom 80 Kanna Road, Yangon. tel: 370867, 380322, 371852, 371853, 256438, 370863, 370864, 370865, fax: 370866 United States of America 110, University Avenue, Kamayut Township, Yangon. tel: 536509, 535756, 538038, fax: 650306 Vietnam Building No. 72, Thanlwin Road, Bahan Township, Yangon. tel: 511305, fax: 514897, email: vnemb myr@ cybertech.net.mm Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia No.287/289, U Wisara Rd, Sanchaung Tsp. tel : 01-536153, 516952, fax : 01-516951 UNITED NATIONS ILO Liaison Officer Rm (M1212~1220), 12 Fl-A, Traders Hotel. 223, tel: 242 393, 242811. fax: 242594. IOM 12th Flr, Traders Hotel, 223, tel: 252560 ext. 5002 UNAIDS Rm: (1223~1231), 12 Fl, Traders Hotel. tel: 252361, 252362, 252498. fax: 252364. UNDCP 11-A, Malikha St, Mayangone tsp. tel: 666903, 664539. fax: 651334. UNDP 6, Natmauk Rd, Bahan tel: 542910-19. fax: 292739. UNFPA 6, Natmauk Rd, Bahan tsp. tel: 546029. UNHCR 287, Pyay Rd, Sanchaung tsp. tel: 524022, 524024. fax 524031. UNIAP Rm: 1202, 12 Fl, Traders Hotel.tel: 254852, 254853. UNIC 6, Natmauk St., BHN tel: 52910~19 UNICEF 14~15 Flr, Traders Hotel. P.O. Box 1435, KTDA. tel: 375527~32, fax: 375552 email: unicef.yangon@unicef. org, www.unicef.org/myanmar. UNODC 11-A, Malikha Rd., Ward 7, MYGN. tel: 666903, 660556, 660538, 660398, 664539, fax: 651334. email: fo.myanmar@unodc.org www. unodc.org./myanmar/ UNOPS Inya Lake Hotel, 3rd floor, 37, Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd, Mayangone Tsp. tel: 951657281~7. Fax: 657279. UNRC 6, Natmauk Rd, P.O. Box 650, TMWE tel: 542911~19, 292637 (Resident Coordinator), fax: 292739, 544531. WFP 3rd-flr, Inya Lake Hotel, 37, Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd. tel: 657011~6 (6-lines) Ext: 2000. WHO 12A Fl, Traders Hotel. tel:250583. ASEAN Coordinating Of. for the ASEAN Humanitarian Task Force, 79, Taw Win st, Dagon Township. Ph: 225258. FAO Myanma Agriculture Service Insein Rd, Insein. tel: 641672, 641673. fax: 641561.

General Listing
ACCOMMODATIONHOTELS
Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake Yangon 40 Natmauk Rd, Tarmwe. tel: 544500. fax: 544400. Summit Parkview Hotel 350, Ahlone Rd, Dagon Tsp. tel: 211888, 211966. fax: 227995. Thamada Hotel 5, Alan Pya Phaya Rd, Dagon. tel: 243639, 243640, 243641. Traders Hotel 223 Sule Pagoda Rd. tel: 242828. fax: 242838. Winner Inn 42, Than Lwin Rd, Bahan Tsp. tel: 535205, 524387. email: winnerinnmyanmar @gmail.com Yangon YMCA 263, Mahabandoola Rd, Botataung Tsp. tel: 294128, Yuzana Hotel 130, Shwegondaing Rd, Bahan Tsp, tel : 01-549600, 543367 Yuzana Garden Hotel 44, Alanpya Pagoda Rd, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp, tel : 01-248944

ACCOUNTANTS AND CONSULTANTS

Charted Certified, Certified Public Accountants. tel: 09-5010563. drtinlatt@matglobal.com

AIR CONDITION
Chigo No. 216, 38 Street (Upper), Kyauktada Tsp, tel : 373472

No.7A, Wingabar Road, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. Tel : (951) 546313, 430245. 09-731-77781~4. Fax : (01) 546313. www.cloverhotel.asia. info@cloverhotel.asia Confort Inn 4, Shweli Rd, Bet: Inya Rd & U Wisara Rd, Kamaryut, tel: 525781, 526872 Golden Aye Yeik Mon Hotel 4, Padauk Lane, 4th Word, Aye Yeik Mon Housing, Hlaing. tel: 681706. Hotel Yangon No. 91/93, 8th Mile Junction, Mayangone. tel : 01-667708, 667688. Inya Lake Resort Hotel 37 Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd. tel: 662866. fax: 665537. Orchid Hotel 91, Anawrahta street, Pazundaung Township, Yangon, . Tel: 399930, 704740, 293261. E-mail: orchidhotel@myanmar. com. mm.

ACCOMMODATIONHOTELS (NAy PyI TAw)

The First Air conditioning systems designed to keep you fresh all day GUNKUL Engineer supply Co., Ltd. No.437 (A), Pyay Road, Kamayut. P., O 11041 Yangon, Tel: +(95-1) 502016-18, Mandalay- Tel: 02-60933. Nay Pyi Taw- Tel: 067-420778, E-mail : sales.ac@freshaircon. com. URL: http://www. freshaircon.com General 83-91, G-F, Bo Aung Kyaw St, Kyauktada Tsp, tel : 706223, 371906

Reservation Office (Yangon) 262-264, Pyay Road, Dagon Centre, A# 03-01, Sanchaung Tsp, Yangon. Tel: 95-1-501937, 536255, 09-520-0926.
The Oasis Hotel (Nay Pyi Taw)

ASTROLOGER
Saya Min Thoun Dara Astrologer No(2), Maha Wizaya Pagoda North Stairway, Dagon Tsp. tel: 296184

Tel: 95-67-422088, 422099

ACCOMMODATION LONG TERM

No. 205, Corner of Wadan Street & Min Ye Kyaw Swa Road, Lanmadaw Tsp, Yangon. Myanmar. Tel: (95-1) 212850 ~ 3, 229358 ~ 61, Fax: (95-1) 212854. info@myanmarpandahotel .com http://www. myanmarpandahotel.com Panorama Hotel 294-300, Pansodan Street, Kyauktada Tsp. tel: 253077. PARKROYAL Yangon, Myanmar 33, Alan Pya Pagoda Rd, Dagon tsp. tel: 250388. fax: 252478. email: enquiry.prygn@ parkroyalhotels.com Website: parkroyalhotels. com. Savoy Hotel 129, Damazedi Rd, Kamayut tsp. tel: 526289, 526298, Seasons of Yangon Yangon Intl Airport Compound. tel: 666699. Sweet Hotel 73, Damazedi Road, San Chaung Tsp, Ph: 539152 Sedona Hotel Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd, Yankin. tel: 666900. Strand Hotel 92 Strand Rd. tel: 243377. fax: 289880. Easy Expat Accommodation Specialist in Yangon. Tel: 09-730-33776. Eco-Apartment Fully Furnished Ga 21, Pearl Centre (Pearl Condo), Bahan Tsp. Tel: 557488. Espace Avenir No 523, Pyay Rd, Kamaryut Tsp. tel: 505213-222. Golden Hill Towers 24-26, Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd, Bahan Tsp. tel: 558556. ghtower@ mptmail.net.mm. Marina Residence 8, Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd, Mayangone Tsp. tel: 6506 51~4. fax: 650630. MiCasa Hotel Apartments 17, Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd, Yankin Tsp. tel: 650933. fax: 650960. Sakura Residence 9, Inya Rd, Kamaryut Tsp. tel: 525001. fax: 525002. The Grand Mee Ya Hta Executive Residence 372, Bogyoke Aung San Rd, Pabedan Tsp. tel 951-256355 (25 lines). fax: 951-256360. email: gmer@ mptmail.net.mm, www. grandmeeyahta.com Yangon City Villa (Residence) Pyay Rd, 8 Mile Junction, MYGN, tel: 513101

BARS
50th Street 9/13, 50th street-lower, Botataung Tsp. Tel-397160.

Green Garden Beer Gallery Mini Zoo, Karaweik Oo-Yin Kabar.

Emergency Numbers
Ambulance tel: 295133. Fire tel: 191, 252011, 252022. Police emergency tel: 199. Police headquarters tel: 282541, 284764. Red Cross tel:682600, 682368 Traffic Control Branch tel:298651 Department of Post & Telecommunication tel: 591384, 591387. Immigration tel: 286434. Ministry of Education tel:545500m 562390 Ministry of Sports tel: 370604, 370605 Ministry of Communications tel: 067-407037. Myanma Post & Telecommunication (MPT) tel: 067407007. Myanma Post & Tele-communication (Accountant Dept) tel: 254563, 370768. Ministry of Foreign Affairs tel: 067-412009, 067-412344. Ministry of Health tel: 067-411358-9. Yangon City Development Committee tel: 248112. HOSPITALS Central Womens Hospital tel: 221013, 222811. Children Hospital tel: 221421, 222807 Ear, Nose & Throat Hospital tel: 543888. Naypyitaw Hospital (emergency) tel: 420096. Workers Hospital tel: 554444, 554455, 554811. Yangon Children Hospital tel: 222807, 222808, 222809. Yangon General Hospital (East) tel: 292835, 292836, 292837. Yangon General Hospital (New) tel: 384493, 384494, 384495, 379109. Yangon General Hospital (West) tel: 222860, 222861, 220416. Yangon General Hospital (YGH) tel: 256112, 256123, 281443, 256131. ELECTRICITY Power Station tel:414235 POST OFFICE General Post Office 39, Bo Aung Kyaw St. (near British Council Library). tel: 285499. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Yangon International Airport tel: 662811. YANGON PORT Shipping (Coastal vessels) tel: 382722 RAILWAYS Railways information tel: 274027, 202175-8.

INYA1 Resturant & Bar No.(1), Inya Road, Kamayut Tsp. Tel: 01-527506 email: inyaone@gmail.com www.inya1.com

Strand Bar 92, Strand Rd, Yangon, Myanmar. tel: 243377.fax: 243393, sales@thestrand.com.mm www.ghmhotels.com

Lobby Bar PARKROYAL Yangon, Myanmar. 33, Alan Pya Phaya Road, Dagon Tsp. tel: 250388.

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Inya Day Spa 16/2, Inya Rd, Kamayut Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: 537907, 503375.

SAIL Marketing & Communications Suite 403, Danathiha Center 790, Corner of Bogyoke Rd & Wadan Rd, Lanmadaw Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: (951) 211870, 224820, 2301195. Email: admin@ advertising-myanmar.com www.advertising-myanmar. com

Room - 4021, 3rd Floor, Taw Win Centre. Ph: 8600111 (Ext:4021), 09-803-2581. Qi Foot Spa At Inya Lake Hotel, Yangon. Tel: +951-662866, 662857 Ext: 1725 Zen Wellness Care No.62 (A), Rm-3, Yaw Min Gyi St, Dagon Tsp, Yangon. Tel: +951-252939.

MYANMAR BOOK CENTRE Nandawun Compound, No. 55, Baho Road, Corner of Baho Road and Ahlone Road, (near Eugenia Restaurant), Ahlone Township. tel: 212 409, 221 271. 214708 fax: 524580. email: info@ myanmarbook.com

CONSTRUCTION

ENTERTAINMENT

GAS COOKER & COOKER HOODS

24 hours Cancer centre No. 330, Yangon International Hotel, Ahlone Road, Dagon Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: (951) 218388, 218292 Fax: (951) 218389

CAFS

Zamil Steel No-5, Pyay Road, 7 miles, Mayangone Tsp, Yangon. Tel: (95-1) 652502~04. Fax: (95-1) 650306. Email: zamilsteel@ zamilsteel.com.mm

Dance Lessons Mon-Fri 12:00 to 23:00. Sat-Sun 10 am to 8 pm Fun dancing Friday nights with Filipino musicians 4, U Tun Myat St, Tamwe. Tel: 01-541 550 The Uranium Dance Studio Pearl condo Bldg (C), 2nd flr, Bahan Tsp. Tel: 09731-42624, 09-514-0404.

DOMAIN
La Brasserie (International) PARKROYAL Yangon. 33, Alan Pya Phaya Road, Dagon Tsp. tel : 250388. Cafe de Angel Always Pure & Fresh No.24, Baho Rd, Ahlone Tsp. tel : 703449 Opening Hour: 9 am to 11 pm

Yangon : A-3, Aung San Stadium (North East Wing), Mingalartaungnyunt Tsp. Tel : 245543, 09-730-37772. Mandalay : Room No.(B,C) (National Gas), 35th St, Btw 80th & 81st, Chanayetharzan Tsp. Tel : 09-6803505, 02 34455, 36748, 71878.

GEMS & JEWELLERIES

BEAUTY & MASSAGE

.biz.mm .per.mm .com.mm .org.mm

FITNESS CENTRE
Espace Avenir 523, Pyay Rd, Kamayut Tsp, Tel : 505214, 505222 FIT Club - Rm 101~3, Marina Residence, 8, Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd, Mayangone Tsp, Tel : 650634, 650651 Ext:102 Parkroyal Fitness & Spa Parkroyal Yangon. 33, Alan Pya Phaya Road, Dagon Tsp. Tel: 250388.

A Little Dayspa No. 475 C, Pyi Road, Kamayut, Yangon. Tel: 09-431-28831.

La Source Beauty Spa 80(A), Inya Rd, Kamayut. tel: 512 380, 511 252. Sedona Hotel, Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd. tel: 666 900 My Way Diamond Condo, Bldg(A), Rm (G-02), Pyay Rd, Kamayut Tsp, Yangon. Tel: 52717, 09 51 70528

No. (8), Panchan Tower, Sanchaung Tsp, Yangon. Tel: 951-516891~3 sm@mtg.biz.mm, www.mtg. biz.mm, www.mmnic.biz.mm.

DUTY FREE
INYA1 Resturant & Bar No.(1), Inya Road, Kamayut Tsp. Tel: 01-527506 email: inyaone@gmail.com www.inya1.com Traders Caf Traders Hotel, Yangon. #223, Sule Pagoda Rd. Tel: 242828 ext: 6519

Natural Gems of Myanmar No. 30 (A), Pyay Road (7 mile), Mayangone Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: 01-660397, 654398, 654399.

24 hours Medical centre No. 330, Ground Flr, Yangon Intl Hotel, Ahlone Road, Dagon Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar. 24 hour Call Centre : (951) 218 445 Clinic : (959) 4921 8159 Office : (951) 218 446 Fax : (951) 218 389 www.leomedicare.com
Shimmering Gold Services Co., Ltd.
VICTORY fOR LIfE

GENERATORS

BANGKOK, THAILAND

Traders Hotel, 5th Floor Tel: 242828,Ext: Coreana. Sedona Hotel, Mandalay Ground Fl. Tel: 02-36488, Ext: Coreana

BATTERY

CHOCOLATE
ISO 9001:2008 (QMS)

Duty Free Airport Shopping Yangon International Airport Arrival/Departure Tel: 662676 (Airport) Office: 17, 2nd street, Hlaing Yadanarmon Housing, Hlaing Township, Yangon. Tel: 500143, 500144, 500145.

Heavy Equipments & Genset

Mr. Betchang No.(272), Pyay Rd, DNH Tower, Rm No.(503), 5th flr, Sanchaung Tsp, Tel: 095041216 The Yangon GYM Summit Parkview Hotel 350, Ahlone Rd, Dagon Tsp. tel: 211888, 211966. Traders Health Club. Level 5, Traders Hotel Yangon#223 Sule Pagoda Rd, Tel: 951 242828 Ext: 6561

Inya Day Spa

16/2, Inya Rd, Kamayut Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: 537907, 503375.

Proven Technology Industry Co., Ltd. No. FS 14, Bayintnaung Rd, Shwe Sabai Yeik Mon, Kamayut Tsp, Yangon. Tel: 951-951-701719~20, 527667, 531030, 531041, 530694. Fax: 527667, 531030. http//www. toyobatterymyanmar.com.

EDUCATION CENTRE
MHR Business & Management Institute 905, 9th floor, Modern Iron Market(Thanzay Condo) Lanmadaw St. Tel: 707822. NLEC 82 Anawrahta Rd, Corner of 39 St, Kyauktada Tsp. Tel: 250225.

Winning Way No. 589-592, Bo Aung Kyaw St, Yangon-Pathein highway Road. Hlaing Thayar Tsp. Tel: 951645178-182, 685199, Fax: 951-645211, 545278. e-mail: mkt-mti@ winstrategic.com.mm

VEJTHANI MYANMAR REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE No.125(C), West Shwe Gon Dine Road, Bahan Township, Yangon, Myanmar. 01-3449977. Hot Line: 09-507-1111, 01-555448, 555998. vejthani@myanmar.com.mm www.vejthani.com

HOME FURNISHING

HEALTH SERvICES
22, Pyay Rd, 9 mile, Mayangone Tsp. tel: 660769, 664363.

G-A, Ground Floor, Pearl Center, Kabaraye Pagoda Road, Yangon. Tel: 09 500 6880 Email: chocolateheaven. sale@gmail.com

FLORAL SERvICES

Lemon Day Spa No. 96 F, Inya Road, Kamaryut Tsp, Yangon. Tel: 514848, 09-732-08476. E.mail: lemondayspa.2011 @gmail.com Saw Peter Foot Reflexology Oil Massage, Body Massage, Foot Massage. Any time you want at your place. Tel : 09-518-8047.

BOOK STORES

COLD STORAGE

ELECTRICAL

Innwa Book Store No. 246, Rm.201/301, GF, Pansodan Street (Upper Block), Kyauktada Tsp. Tel. 389838, 243216, 374324, 514387

Est. 1992 in Myanmar Cold Storage Specialist, Solar Hot Water Storage Solutions. Tel: 09-504-2196, 09-73194828. E-mail: gei.ygn2@ gmail.com, glover2812@ gmail.com

Est. 1992 in Myanmar Electrical & Mechanical Contractors, Designers, Consultants. Tel: 09-504-2196, 09-73194828. E-mail: gei.ygn2@ gmail.com, glover2812@ gmail.com

Floral Service & Gift Shop No. 449, New University Avenue, Bahan Tsp. YGN. Tel: 541217, 559011, 09-860-2292. Market Place By City Mart Tel: 523840~43, 523845~46, Ext: 205. Junction Nay Pyi Taw Tel: 067-421617~18 422012~15, Ext: 235. Res: 067-414813, 09-49209039. Email : eternal@ mptmail.net.mm

81, Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 548022, 542979, 553783, 09-8030847, 09-730-56079. Email: asiapacific. myanmar@gmail.com.

HOTEL MANAGEMENT

Agent Office, 5th Floor, Junction Centre (Maw Tin), Lanmadaw Township, Yangon. Myanmar. Ph: 09-731-56770, 09-5117584, Fax: 01-516313, myanmarmeditour@gmail. com

Hotel ManagementConsultants (Singapore) Yangon Office Tel. : 09-516-6400 Email: info@univel.com.sg

LEGAL SERvICE
U Min Sein, BSc, RA, CPA.,RL Advocate of the Supreme Court 83/14 Pansodan St, Yangon. tel: 253 273. uminsein@mptmail.net.mm

Floral Service & Gift Centre 102(A), Dhamazaydi Rd, Yangon.tel: 500142 Summit Parkview Hotel, tel: 211888, 211966 ext. 173 fax: 535376.email: sandy@ sandymyanmar.com.mm.

MARINE COMMUNICATION & NAvIGATION

Acupuncture, Medicine Massage, Foot Spa Add:No,27(A),Ywa Ma Kyaung Street, Hlaing Township, Yangon. Tel: 01-511122, 526765. Piyavate Hospital (Bangkok) Myanmar Represent ative (Head office) Grand Mee Yahta Executive Residences. No.372, Bogyoke Aung San Rd, PBDN. Ph: 256355, Ext: 3206. Hotline: 09-73777799. Email: piyavate@cnt. com.mm, piyavate.cnt@ gmail.com, Website: www. piyavate.com PHIH-Specialist Clinic FMI Centre (4th Floor) #380, Bogyoke Aung San Road, Pabedan Tsp. tel: 243 010, 243 012, 243 013

Foral Service & Gifts shop No.2, Corner of Khay Mar St & Baho Rd (Near Asia Royal Hospital), Sanchaung Tsp, Yangon. email: yangonflorist@ myanmar.com.mm. Tel: 01-510406, 09-73184714.

Top Marine Show Room No-385, Ground Floor, Lower Pazundaung Road, Pazundaung Tsp, Yangon. Ph: 01-202782, 09-851-5597

Media & Advertising

FOAM SPRAY INSULATION

Foam Spray Insulation No-410, Ground Floor, Lower Pazuntaung Road, Pazuntaung Tsp, Yangon. Telefax : 01-203743, 09730-26245, 09-500-7681. Hot Line-09-730-30825.

FURNITURE
NatRay Co., Ltd. Rm 807, La Pyayt Wun Plaza. tel : 01-370833, 370836

24 hours Laboratory & X-ray No. 330, Ground Flr, Yangon Intl Hotel, Ahlone Road, Dagon Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: (951) 218388, (951) 218292 Fax: (951) 218389

Intuitive Design, Advertising, Interior Decoration Corporate logo/Identity/ Branding, Brochure/ Profile Booklet/ Catalogue/ Billboard, Corporate diary/ email newsletter/ annual reports, Magazine, journal advertisement and 3D presentation and detailed planning for any interior decoration works. Talk to us: (951) 430-897, 553-918 www.medialane.com.au 58B Myanma Gon Yaung Housing, Than Thu Mar Road, Tamwe, Yangon.

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SCHOOLS
Phoenix Court (Chinese) PARKROYAL Yangon. 33, Alan Pya Phaya Road, Dagon Tsp. tel: 250388. ASIA Language & Business Academy (All classes are taught by native English-speaking teachers), No-66, Shwedagon Pagoda Road, Dagon Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel:+95-1376236, 376314, 384055. Streamline Education 24, Myasabai Rd, Parami, Myangone Tsp. tel: 662304, 09-500-6916. No.35(b), Tatkatho Yeik Mon Housing, New University Avenue, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 951-549451, 557219, 540730. www.yangon-academy.org Myanmar. Tel: 95-1-535783, 527705, 501429. Fax: 95-1-527705. Email: salesikon@myanmar.com.mm Junction Mawtin Bogyoke Aung San Rd, Cor of Wadan St. Lanmadaw Tsp. Tel: Junction Square Pyay Rd, Kamayut Tsp. Tel: Ocean Supercentre (North Point ), 9th Mile, Mayangone Tsp. Tel: 651 200, 652963. Pick n Pay Hyper Market Bldg (A,B,C), (14~16), Shwe Mya Yar Housing, Mya Yar Gone St, Mingalartaungnyunt Tsp. Tel: 206001~3, Fax: 9000199 Sein Gay Har 44, Pyay Rd, Dagon Tsp. Tel: 383812, 379823. Super 1 (Kyaikkasan) 65, Lay Daunt Kan St, Tel: 545871~73 Super 1 (Shwe Bonthar) 397, Bogyoke Aung San St, Pabedan. Tel: 250268~29 Victoria Shwe Pone Nyet Yeik Mon, Bayint Naung Rd, Kamaryut Tsp. Tel : 515136. Legendary Myanmar Intl Shipping & Logistics Co., Ltd. No-9, Rm (A-4), 3rd Flr, Kyaung St, Myaynigone, Sanchaung Tsp, Yangon. Tel: 516827, 523653, 516795. Mobile. 09-512-3049. Email: legandarymyr@ mptmail.net .mm www.LMSL-shipping.com Kan Yeik Tha Road Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp. Yangon, Myamar.

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MARKET RESEARCH

MMRD Research BLDG C, New Mingalar Market, 10-story BLDG, 8 & 9 flr, Coner of Mill St & Banyardala Rd, Mingalar Taungnyunt Tsp. Tel: 200326, 200846, 201350. Fax: 202425.

OFFICE FURNITURE

French Restaurant Tel: 299255~9, Ext: 7776 Fax: 382917 reception@ kandawgyipalace-hotel. com www.kandawgyipalacehotel.com

Monday to Saturday (9am to 6pm) No. 797, MAC Tower II, Rm -4, Ground Flr, Bogyoke Aung San Rd, Lamadaw Tsp, Yangon. Tel: (951) 212944 Ext: 303 sales.centuremyanmar@ gmail.com www.centure.in.th

No. 105/107, Kha-Yae-Bin Road. between Pyi Daung Su Yeik Tha (Halpin) and Manawhari Road/Ahlone Road, Dagon Tsp. Tel/Fax: 538895, Tel: 09730-29973, 09-540-9469.
padonmar.restaurant@ gmail.com. www.myanmarrestaurantpadonmar.com

Horizon Intl School 25, Po Sein Road, Bahan Tsp, tel : 541085, 551795, 551796, 450396~7. fax : 543926, email : contact@horizonmyanmar. com, www.horizon.com ILBC 180, Thunandar 9th Lane, Thumingalar Housing, Thingungyung.tel: 562401.

SOLAR SYSTEM
The Brightest AC CFL Bulb 21, 9th St, Lanmadaw Tsp. Ph: 212243, 216861, 216864. spsolarstation@ gmail.com. www. spsolarstation.com

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Khan rematch with Peterson cancelled

LOS ANGELES The much-anticipated rematch between Lamont Peterson and British boxer Amir Khan has been cancelled after the American failed a drug test, Golden Boy Promotions announced on May 9. Peterson and Khan had been due to fight on May 19 in Las Vegas, after the American took the WBA and IBF light-welterweight titles in December in a controversial split decision. But Golden Boy said Petersons failed drug test reports said he tested positive for synthetic testosterone combined with the Nevada State Athletic Commissions inability to hold a hearing in time, led to the fights demise. A failed pre-fight drug test administered by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association [VADA] coupled with the Nevada State Athletic Commissions legal inability to hold a formal hearing on the matter of licensing Lamont Peterson ... has forced the cancellation of the event, Golden Boy said in a statement. Khan reacted strongly to the news, putting the blame squarely on Petersons shoulders. The fight is off! sorry everyone the only person to blame is @kingpete26 Ill be looking for an opponent to fight June 30, he said on Twitter. Peterson won their first bout in Washington in December by a score of 113112 on two judges scorecards while the other had Khan a 115-110 winner. Following the fight, the British boxer who won an Olympic silver as a 17year-old in 2004 claimed a home-town decision had robbed him of victory. The World Boxing Association ordered a rematch, saying it should take place within 180 days. Referee Joe Cooper unfairly deducted two points off Khans scores during the fight for excessive pushing, and also failed to give Khan credit for a knockdown in the first round, the WBA said. Petersons publicist Andre Johnson said in a statement to RingTV.com earlier in the week that the boxers camp was mystified by the test results. We have tremendous respect for VADA and its mission. Lamont, Barry and the entire team emphatically support random drug testing in the most comprehensive manner possible, he said. We are working expeditiously with a team of pathologists and other medical specialists to confirm the origin of the test result and in full compliance with the rules of the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Lamont has never had a positive test either before or after this isolated occurrence. AFP

Athletic Bilbao goalkeeper, Gorka Iraizoz, watches the ball hit the net following a shot by Atletico Madrid forward Radamel Falcao during the UEFA Europa League final at the National Arena stadium in Bucharest on May 9. Pic: AFP

Falcao Europa League hitman again

BUCHAREST A double by Colombian striker Radamel Falcao inspired Atletico Madrid to a 3-0 win over fellow Spaniards Athletic Bilbao on May 9 and their second Europa League trophy in three seasons. Falcao, who also became the first player to win successive Europa League/UEFA Cups with different sides having scored the winning goal for Porto last term, scored a brilliant first-half double to take his tally for this seasons competition to 12. Brazilian attacking midfielder Diego, who missed the 2009 final for Werder Bremen against winners Shakhtar Donetsk because he was suspended, added a third late in the second-half to give Argentinian coach Diego Simeone a trophy just months after he took over as coach. Atleticos victory also saw them break Barcelonas record of successive wins in European competition as they recorded their 12th to break the record of 11 set in the 2002-03 Champions League campaign. Falcao, named after the great Brazilian footballer of the 1982 and 1986 World Cup teams, said he was especially pleased because people had advised him not to go to Atletico. I cannot contain my joy, said the 26-year-old. After all that has been said, like that I made a mistake in going to Atletico, I showed them it was no mistake. We had highs and lows but we deserved to finish as we have done. The first goal? I didnt have an angle so I simply looked for some space. They told me to look for the far post from time-to-time, and this time I listened, he said. As for my future, well, we dont know whether Atletico will play in the Champions League or Europa League next season. We still have a possibility of the Champions League and we are determined to achieve that. Simeone, who was a hard tackling midfielder who won over 100 caps, paid tribute to his players. Winning is always marvellous, but you enjoy it more as a player, because one is on the pitch, one can scream, run, do a lap of honour, said the 42-year-old. When you are a coach you leave that sort of thing to the players. I am proud of the players, happy for the fans, and thank those who brought me to the club in December. Athletic Bilbaos coach Marcelo Bielsa took responsibility for the defeat. I am disappointed, we did not play a good match, said the former Argentina coach, who guided the Argentinians to the 2004 Olympic title. I am in charge of the strategy of the squad who failed to achieve its objective, which makes the disappointment even greater. Atletico deserved their win, but the scale of it was excessive. The feeling of personal responsibility increases in the sense that the difference in quality of the two teams is not the one shown tonight, added Bielsa, who coached Simeone when he was in charge of the national side. Falcao opened the scoring on seven minutes with a spectacular goal after taking the ball down the right and then into the box and as defender Fernando Amorebieta slipped he curled the ball round three defenders and the keeper from the edge of the box. Bilbaos far younger side an average age of under 24 took a while to settle but gradually started to make more of an impact. Their leading striker Fernando Llorente scorer of 29 goals this term missed with an early header and should have done better with a chance in the 19th minute. With only the Atletico keeper, Thibault Courtois, to beat his usual sure touch let him down and skimmed his shot wide. Falcao, though, was unstoppable at the other end and his second stemmed from the hapless Amorebieta being dispossessed as he tried foolishly to dribble it away from the box. Turkish playmaker Ardi Turan found the Colombian, who completely fooled centreback Javi Martinez sending him the wrong way as he went the other, before curling the ball into the top far left corner to double Atleticos lead. The two sides were more evenly matched in the opening 15 minutes of the second-half with Diego going close for Atletico but finding the side netting while Inigo Perez forced a good tip over the bar from 19-year-old Courtois. Athletic kept pressing but clear chances were rare, though Gomez Ibai had some Atletico fans hearts beating faster with his volley from outside the area just clearing the bar with 20 minutes remaining. Markel Susaseta went even closer as the ball ping-ponged round the Atletico area and the ball fell to him unmarked five yards out from goal but with just Courtois to beat the keeper on loan from Chelsea produced a great block with his legs. Diego, though, sealed the win for Atletico with a fine solo goal with five minutes remaining, breaking through a weak tackle by the demoralised Amorebieta and firing home from the edge of the area. AFP

Japanese comic barred from Olympic run for Cambodia

PHNOM PENH A Japanese comedian has been barred from representing Cambodia in the mens marathon at the London Olympics, after the athletics world governing body said he was ineligible. Kuniaki Takizaki, a TV star renowned for his quirky cat impressions under the stage name Neko Hiroshi, has not been a Cambodian citizen long enough to compete internationally, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said in an email on May 8. IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said Takizaki could not run for his country until October one year after he obtained citizenship. The mens marathon takes place on August 12. A request by the Cambodian athletics federation to reduce the normal waiting period for this athlete [from one year] to switch nationality from Japan to Cambodia has been refused by the IAAF council, said Davies. Cambodia was informed of the decision on May 7, he added. Cambodias nomination of Takizaki, 34, as one of five wildcard entries to the games caused a storm in the Southeast Asian country, with critics bemoaning his nationality change and arguing that he was edging out homegrown talent. Takizaki was handed the wildcard after Cambodias top marathon runner Hem Bunting quit the national team last year and fell out with the national athletics body over training conditions. Vath Chamroeun, general secretary of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia, said the national athletics federation would now select another athlete. Kieng Samorn, an 800metre specialist, could be given the chance to compete at the Olympics instead, Chamroeun said. Takizakis Cambodian spokesman Keo Visal was not immediately available for comment. AFP

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economics in the 1980s, and the arrival of its twocompany stock exchange last year, golf was an inevitable consequence of the drive for prosperity at least for the elite. Golf is necessary for the country, and also the high-ranking people play golf, says Khampeng Vongkhanty, vice chairman of the Lao National Golf Federation (LNGF), a body overseen by the Ministry of Education and Sport. Because when they have meetings outside the country, everybody plays golf. So now most of our staff or our highranking people play. Laoss embryonic golfing community so far consists of only one professional, eight courses five in the capital, Vientiane no coaches and almost no pro shops, meaning clubs and other equipment have to be bought in Thailand. Despite this, Khampeng says golf is now booming in aid-dependent Laos, one of the worlds poorest countries where roughly a quarter of the 6.5 million, mainly rural, inhabitants live below the poverty line. For decades Laos was known primarily for its golden triangle opium trade, and it remains deeply agricultural, with low scores on many development indicators. But Luang Prabang Golf Club, the South Koreanfunded resort venture that hosted the tournament in Laos, opened the doors on its marbled clubhouse last year, while Vietnamese money is behind a plush course being built in Vientiane. While golf is plainly in the sights of the ruling Lao Peoples Revolutionary Party, the national federation says money for tournaments, new courses, coaching and equipment must all come from sponsors and investors. We have no golf school. We have no PGA [professional golf association] in Lao PDR. So our players must be trained by pros from Ive played on the Thai tour for many years but playing in Laos, everybody is looking at me and looking up to me, complained Daliya, 22, an archery enthusiast who has also played tennis for Laos. Im the only pro, theres so much pressure on me. Its very tough. With just a handful of serious teenage players, all with well-to-do parents who can fund their training abroad, there is little reason to think Laos can soon make inroads even on Southeast Asian golf, let alone bigger tours. Most of the kids that are up and coming come from above-average families, where they send them to study overseas, says Jason Lim, a Singaporean businessman who doubles as team manager for the LNGF. After high school, they go to Australia, Singapore, Thailand, the US and there they pick up sports ... Very few kids can have this kind of luxury in Laos. Daliya said he was supported 100 percent by his father, while 14year-old amateur Vasin Manibanseng, who also struggled on the long, challenging Luang Prabang course, knows just two or three players his age in Vientiane. This general indifference to golf is clear among local people at Luang Prabang a bumpy eight-hour drive or a 30-minute flight from the capital and bemusement has greeted the sports arrival in the Laotian hinterland. As the hot sun dipped behind the mountains on day one, virtually the only spectators at the Laos Open were a rural family who appeared incongruously from bushes on the back nine and offered a smiling Buddhist greeting. And as Nike-clad Daliya lined up his par putt on the 16th green, traditional life continued unhindered just metres away on the Mekong, as fishermen standing in the water cast their nets or puttered along in long, narrow boats. Ask Laotian people what they think of golf, and the answer is either a shrug or a smile. Jordan admits the sport has zero penetration on the dusty, often unpaved streets where shavenheaded boys in Buddhist robes jostle with motorised rickshaws. I think theyll be more intrigued than anything else. Theres never been a golf tournament here before, so therell be a level of whats golf? says the World Sport Group executive. For anyone who was paying attention, it was Thailands Thaworn Wiratchant, the Laos Opens biggest drawcard and the man who opened the tournament with that very first drive, who won by eight shots. The 45-year-old veteran picked up a modest $13,000 for his efforts 104 million kip in the local currency, or nearly 13 years income for the average Laotian. AFP

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In Laos, bamboo curtain yields to pro golf

By Talek Harris LUANG PRABANG, Laos Its 7am in Luang Prabang and beneath a jagged line of mountain peaks, highranking communist party officials are among a small but powerful crowd gathered silently at the first tee. One swish of the driver and a white ball fizzes down the fairway, prompting warm applause as professional golf finally arrives in secluded, poverty-stricken Laos, long isolated behind the bamboo curtain. Its a small but important step for the Southeast Asian backwater, which has watched as growing neighbours China, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and even Cambodia embraced the game. The Luang Prabang Laos Open, held between May 3-6 at a UNESCO world heritage site on the banks of the Mekong, offered total prize money of US$80,000, loose change in a sport where the best players can command $1 million just to turn up and play. But such a purse had never been offered for any sport in the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, a oneparty state whose only other big sporting event, the 2009 Southeast Asian Games, was held in reduced form due to lack of facilities. While golf has penetrated nearly every corner of upwardly mobile Asia, it had barely registered in landlocked, hilly Laos, where a bloody civil war ended in 1975 but left it behind the bamboo curtain dividing Communist and free-market parts of the continent. Even Myanmar enjoys a healthy golf scene inherited from British colonialists. North Koreas affinity with the game is underlined by its claim that the late Kim Jong-Il shot 11 holes-in-one on his first round. However, times change and with Laoss gradual introduction of free-market

Thai golfer Thaworn Wiratchant holds the trophy after winning the Lao Open at Luang Prabang Golf Club in Luang Prabang on May 6. Pic: AFP neighbouring countries, says Khampeng. The policy of our government is waiting for investors to build golf courses, he adds. This strategy has paid off in Luang Prabang, where tuna tycoon Lee Gang-Pil has gambled $30 million on a 6805-metre course minutes from the provincial citys elegant French colonial architecture and Buddhist temples. Tourism officials were quick to see the marketing potential of a televised golf tournament, and the LNGF is already eyeing a spot on the bigger, richer Asian Tour. Golf can take off it will be led by the tourism, says Chris Jordan, senior vicepresident, golf, at World Sport Group, which runs the ASEAN PGA Tour. Your middle and uppermiddle class will see this on the TV and think, its a decent-looking golf course, its in the middle of a UNESCO world heritage site, lets go up there for the weekend. Although this approach may work for Luang Prabang, success appears much more distant for Laoss players, whose shortcomings were brutally laid bare at their first national open. Spearheaded by Daliya Saidara, the countrys lone professional and a regular on Thailands domestic tour, all 16 Laotian players missed the cut in an inauspicious outing for the home contingent.

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AFC run ends for Myanmar clubs
By Aung Si Hein AS the AFC cups group-stage matches ended this week, both representatives of Myanmar football, Yangon United FC and Ayeyawady United FC, slumped out of the competition. Yangon United ended their poor run with a 1-2 loss to Hong kongs Citizen FC at home on May 8, having failed to win a single game in the tournament. On the same day, Ayeyawady were cruelly dumped out, losing 0-1 to Malaysias Kelantan, when a draw would have seen them progress. It was both teams maiden season in the competition, but the loss did not come without a silver lining. Despite not winning a single game in group G, YUFC showed themselves to be tough opponents, even running fancied championship contenders, Thailands Chong Buri FC, close, losing only to a last minute fightback at home. A superior run by Ayeyawady had yielded 7 points in group H, but they stumbled when progression looked certain, losing their last two games. The loss cruelly dropped Ayeyawady to joint last in the group with three teams on 7 points. It was Vietnams Navibank Saigon who went through on superior goal difference. Similar to their performance in Hong Kong, YUFC had the lions share of possession against Citizen, but fell victim to a similar counter-attacking threat. YUFC simply could not turn their superior possession into goals. Yangon United are a very tough, skilled and good team. But they seem to be missing strikers, said Chu Kwok Kuen, head coach of Citizen FC. YUFC were handicapped having to play the final game without any of their foreign players after defender Nicola Karchev received a one game ban. Two other foreigners, forward Milan Jovanovic and midfielder Mladen Ristic, were dropped after their contracts were cancelled over continued poor performances. Eric Williams the head coach of YUFC remained unfazed, and instead sought to praise his local players. I was surprised and impressed by the local players. They performed well without the combination of foreign players. The other team used their main players together with foreigners. It showed that they respect our team and thought it would be difficult to beat us, Eric Williams said. YUFC leapt out of the starting blocks in the search for an early goal, but were quickly punished for the gung-ho attitude. After only 5 minutes, Citizens forward, Nakamura Yuto, raced forward on the left, and crossed the ball in only for YUFC defender Khin Maung Lwin to turn it his own net. The game continued in stalemate, without either team able to exploit the other until the second half. Citizen doubled their lead on 53 minutes when midfielder Tam Lok Hin coolly finished from a tidy pass made by forward Paulo Robspierry Carreiro. A 64-minute corner for YUFC brought hope as Yan Aung Kyaw controlled the ball and burst into the area, slamming a shot into the back of the net to drag them back into the game. However it was to no avail as Citizen clung on to their lead.

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Liverpool forward Andy Carroll (left) vies with Chelseas Spanish midfielder Oriol Romeu during the English Premier League football match between Liverpool and Chelsea at Anfield, Liverpoolon May 8, 2012. Pic: AFP

Liverpool have last laugh

LONDON Chelsea will have to win the Champions League final if they are to compete in next seasons edition after a 4-1 defeat by Liverpool on May 8 ended their hopes of a top four Premier League finish. Just three days after beating Liverpool 2-1 in the FA Cup final at Wembley, Chelsea were 3-0 behind inside half an hour at Anfield following an own-goal from Michael Essien and goals from Jordan Henderson and Daniel Agger. Ramires scored for Chelsea early in the second half before Jonjo Shelvey ended any hope of a comeback with his first Premier League goal. Englands top four clubs will enter next terms Champions League unless Chelsea beat Bayern Munich at the German clubs ground in the final on May 19. If Chelsea win, it will deprive the team in fourth of a place in the preliminary round. This defeat meant the top four was beyond the reach of Chelsea, who will now finish in sixth spot. I think Liverpool were better tonight, Chelsea interim manager Roberto di Matteo told Sky Sports. The Italian defended his decision to make eight changes from the team that ran out at Wembley by saying: Weve come so far because weve used the energy and players we have in the squad. That is the only way to be in the race until now. I have no regrets, the former Chelsea midfielder added. Weve had very intense games and to get yourself up for all those has been a big demand. I thought tonight fresh legs would give us a better chance. Victory, in their final home league game of the season, took Liverpool into eighth place but, despite a League Cup final win over second-tier Cardiff this term, no-one knows better than Reds manager and Anfield great Kenny Dalglish that more is expected of the Merseysiders. The players and everyone will be happy we ended on a high note, said the former Liverpool and Scotland striker. That performance was on a par with many this season but weve not had the results those deserve. For us it is a satisfactory evening and I hope the supporters go away happy. I dont think there are many other places where supporters would turn up and be so supportive, especially after the Cup final, Dalglish added. The Reds first three goals came in a dramatic nine-minute burst. Essien knocked the ball into his own net after a brilliant 19th minute run and cross by Liverpool striker Luis Suarez. Liverpools Henderson capitalised on a slip by Chelsea captain John Terry to slide the ball home for a second. Then Agger, after Chelsea failed to clear a corner, headed in from close range. Liverpools Stewart Downing saw his first half stoppage-time penalty hit the post before Ramires, who scored Chelseas opener at Wembley, pulled a goal back for the visitors early in the second period. But Liverpool went 4-1 up, restoring their three-goal lead in the 61st minute when Chelsea reserve keeper Ross Turnbull, making a rare appearance in place of Petr Cech, miscued a clearance from outside his box straight to Shelvey and the midfielder steered the ball into an empty net from 25 metres. AFP

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U Thein Sein: Myanmars next Nobel Peace Prize winner?

President-led peace team could crack Kachin deadlock and reach historic settlement, say experts
By Thomas Kean with AFP PRESIDENT U Thein Seins decision to take charge of peacemaking efforts in Kachin State has raised hopes of a historic settlement but also put the governments credibility on the line, experts say. The consolidation earlier this month of two negotiating teams into a larger, single body led by the president and Vice President Dr Sai Mauk Kham has been broadly welcomed and is the strongest signal yet that the government is serious about ending the conflict in Kachin State. Fighting broke out in June with the collapse of a 17-year ceasefire and since then more than 50,000 people have been displaced. Previous negotiating efforts by a parliamentary team failed to win over the Kachin Independence Organisation and the groups leader, U Aung Thaung, has been left out of the new line-up, ostensibly for health reasons. However, U Thein Sein will have to overcome significant challenges if his negotiating team is to end the conflict in Kachin State not least of all by convincing hardliners within his own ranks that concessions need to be made to win the KIOs trust. For the government, the risks and potential benefits of the latest move are considerable, said Dr Nicholas Farrelly, a research fellow at the Australian National University and co-founder of the New Mandala website. I think the message is now pretty clear: the war in Kachin State is the top priority, Dr Farrelly said in an email last week. The formation of the new negotiating team indicates that President U Thein Sein wants the war to end. His own credibility and leadership are now at stake. Along with significant economic benefits, there is probably a Nobel Peace Prize waiting for whoever manages to finally end Burmas tragic history of civil war, he said. The real question at this stage should be: is President U Thein Sein up to the task? Millions of Myanmar citizens certainly hope so. A KIA official, who asked not to be named, said that U Thein Seins involvement was welcome. demands for political negotiations from the outset. The KIOs position has been influenced by its experiences during the 1994-2011 ceasefire period: while it participated in the National Convention that drafted the 2008 constitution, KIO-linked groups in Kachin and Shan states were later barred from contesting the 2010 election. It is not clear whether the newlook government team will budge on this policy but the presidents widely applauded March 1 address to the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw in which he raised the prospect of amending the 2008 constitution in cooperation with other national races at hluttaw indicates that he is likely to bring a fresh approach to the negotiating table. I have made a firm commitment to end all suspicions and anxieties during our tenure. And this is the conviction of our government. We have the duty to heal the bitter wounds and sufferings and fulfil the lost dreams. It is the historic duty for all of us. We understand that it is a demanding task. But we have full confidence to shoulder this duty well, he told hluttaw representatives. In truth, trust is a vitally important factor in our national reconsolidation process. Sincerely, we will make no deception in our stride to the goal of eternal peace. We will do the job with trust based on Panglong spirit. There must be mutual assurances and pledges to end all hostilities. It is the duty of our government and the Kachin leaders to fulfil the aspirations and hopes of the people. If U Thein Sein can turn these words into concrete results, the consequences on Myanmars political, social and economic future could be great. Many still hold out hope for a new compact between Myanmars ethnic majority and the countrys many minority populations, said Dr Farrelly. Concessions and a genuine appetite for reconciliation will create the conditions for a new settlement. The Kachin will want to see the terms of their deal provide impetus for a wider ranging and much grander negotiation. Related report, P. 5.

INGOs survey needs in Kachin camps

By Soe Than Lynn SIX non-government organisations last week visited refugee camps in Myitkyina and Waingmaw townships to assess needs ahead of the rainy season. The trip followed a meeting with Deputy Minister for Border Affairs Brigadier General Zaw Win, ministry officials and members of the Kachin State government on May 10, said Amyotha Hluttaw representative U Khat Htein Nan, who was also present at the meeting. Representatives from the six organisations UNHCR, World Food Program, UN Development Program, UN Childrens Fund, Myanmar Red Cross Society and International Committee for the Red Cross were to visit camps in Myitkyina on the evening of May 10 and in Waingmaw the following day. During the meeting, INGO representatives urged the union and regional governments to facilitate their efforts to assist the displaced people. When visiting the refugee camps, they will study what to support at present, how to help in the future and how the union government could provide better support for refugees so they can get through the rainy season smoothly, he said. The state government said they will work promptly as allowed by the union government. Almost 30,000 people displaced by the fighting in Kachin State are estimated to be living in 63 camps in government-controlled parts of the state. More than half of 63 camps do not have buildings that can withstand the rainy season. Livelihoods and education are of prime importance. Further, in the rainy season, as these camps are shared by many people, the refugees particularly need health care services, U Khat Htein Nan said. The INGOs are expected to improve buildings in the camps and provide food, medicines and education support following the conclusion of the survey, he said. U Khat Htein Nan and Pyithu Hluttaw representative for Tanai U Myo Swe were to join the INGOs on the trip. While U Khat Htein Nan was previously in the parliamentary peacemaking team, he has been replaced in the new, Presidentled outfit by Special Region 1 leader and Amyotha Hluttaw representative U Zakhone Taint Yein. Meanwhile, Kachin Pyithu Hluttaw representative Daw Dwe Bu will replace her counterpart U Htun Htun. U Khat Htein Nan said clashes between the Tatmadaw and Kachin Independence Army ended on May 7 but it was unclear whether the fighting would remain on hold until a new round of peace talks could be held. Translated by Thit Lwin

President U Thein Sein greets members of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw after delivering a speech March 1. Pic: AFP But he said the success of the talks will depend on their policy, their willingness to talk to us. It doesnt depend on people. Independent analyst Richard Horsey said the Kachin conflict has been particularly hard to calm because on-going fighting made the military reluctant to back down while suffering casualties. But he said the KIA were uncomfortable being the only major group not to strike a deal, and were likely to be open to negotiations that gave them the same standing as other ethnic minority rebels. There was the wrong negotiating team. It wasnt ready to offer the same terms to the Kachin as had offered to the Karen for example, said Mr Horsey, citing international monitors and codes of conduct for troops as examples. But peace may imperil the standing of rebel commanders who enjoy much greater power in a conflict situation, he added, while others benefit personally from controlling land linked to lucrative logging and mining deals with Chinese firms. Central to the stalemate is the governments insistence on an initial ceasefire followed by political dialogue, in contrast to Kachin

Words alone will not bring peace: Saboi Jum

By Cherry Thein GREATER transparency and sincerity will be needed from both the government and Kachin Independence Organisation to end the almost year-long conflict in northern Myanmar, respected Kachin religious leader Reverend Saboi Jum said last week. Rev Saboi Jum told The Myanmar Times on May 9 that words alone would achieve nothing and only action-oriented political dialogue would reduce the tension in Kachin State. It is useless just to make another ceasefire agreement because we have already done it in 1994 the next step is for political dialogue, he said. The government said they will try to reach a ceasefire within three months ... If they really want to it should not take so long; if military stopped their current assault today then we can start the dialogue tomorrow. But Rev Saboi Jum, who is also chairman of non-government organisation Shalom Foundation, said a breakthrough could not be reached overnight. Even if both sides come together for political dialogue with the intention of creating genuine peace, it will be difficult for them to shake off old attitudes and personal grudges, he said. There are many differences, wants and needs from both sides. Participants from both groups must be flexible and show some mutual understanding. I once told Kachin people at a funeral of a former KIO leader that you will never get independence unless you love Myanmar. They were furious about my speech but I was telling the truth. He said there was also substantial mistrust on both sides because of longstanding ignorance and lack of real information. In this regard, the media while still constrained by censorship to a degree has an important role to play in bringing transparency to negotiations. The media can share not only information, facts and figure but also attitudes and aspects among public which is useful tools to decide the context of situation, he said. I appreciate the [Chin National Front]; they released the contents of the agreement to the public. It is steps like these that lead to a transparent and informed society and important for sustainable peace. If we have dialogue, all details must be released to the public so that they can decide whether it is real or fake. Until recently, only leaders could know the contents of the Panglong Agreement but really all people must know about it because it concerns the unity of all people living in the country. We need to be very patient with the peace process because there will be many obstacles. For keeping genuine peace, it is not durable by only taking a business or political approach but go with a heart-to-heart approach. What I mean is moral integrity, including loving kindness, sympathy and honesty they will help make dialogue successful.

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NLD backs away from waxed ballot claim

By Sandar Lwin OFFICIALS from the National League for Democracy have backed away from claims ballots in the April 1 by-elections were covered in wax, after the Union Election Commission declared the complaints groundless. NLD spokesperson U Nyan Win said the party made the complaint based on reports from party officials in the concerned townships and information given by other individuals. We got the reports from our party officials and many individuals from concerned townships about waxed ballots. Based on these reports, we made the complaint to the UEC. And we told the media about the reports at a by-election press conference, he said. We did not have enough time to find the evidence of waxing the ballots. State media carried an article headlined Waxed ballot complaint by NLD a sham, suggests UEC investigation on May 9 that included details of the UEC investigation into allegations that polling station officials handed out ballots with wax over the box next to the NLD candidates name. The wax allegedly made it hard for voters to tick the box of the NLDs candidate. Following the by-elections, the NLD lodged a formal complaint concerning 10 township: Pale, Mawlamyine, Myanaung, Magwe, Taungdwingyi, Kawhmu, Mingalar Taung Nyunt, Mayangone, Dagon Seikkan and Kalaw. The report said no evidence had been found of ballots being covered in wax and suggested that legal action should be lodged against the false grumbler. The complaint made by the secretary of the NLD central campaign team is invalid. In accord with the law, UEC has warned the secretary of the party concerned against stating such groundless information, leading to misunderstanding among the people, for taking action if necessary, the report said. U Myint Aung Tun, the legal in-charge of the NLDs Mayangone township branch, said many people had been talking about waxed ballots a few days before the byelection. Many people told me to be aware of waxed ballots two days before the election. On the day of election, I voted and the ballot I got was okay, he said. But we heard through our poll station representatives that some voters in two poll stations in Mayangone constituency said that they found the ballots they got were difficult to tick on it and asked the poll station officer to change it. The head of the poll station has the authority to change it. The official from one poll station did not change it. But another changed the ballpoint pen and then it was okay to tick [the ballot card], he said. I reported to the headquarters about what we heard but did not officially complain against the polling station concerned. Dr Daw May Win Myint, who won the seat of Mayangone, said she had also not lodged a formal complaint. I told the UEC investigative group just that some people told me the ballots they got were difficult to tick and the poll station officials did not change them. Our campaign manager, who was in the investigative group, said me that the problem is okay, she said. Dr Myat Nyana Soe, an NLD Amyotha Hluttaw representative, said the problem was likely a printing problem rather than foul play. I have been telling all along that it will have been because of a printing error. It would be difficult to wax the ballot cards, especially to wax it only on the patch of one party, he said. If the paper quality was okay or the officers at the poll stations had changed the ballot as voters asked, then the problem would have stopped there. The poll station representatives and the party members should have checked if there was a misunderstanding and they should make only the valid complaints. But I would also like to suggest to the commission that for future elections they use good quality paper and good print quality for the ballots, he said. He said it was up to the election commission whether it took legal action against the NLD over the complaints.

Polish FM urges journalists to tackle corruption

By Nan Tin Htwe FIGHTING corruption is the most important duty of media in the transition to democracy, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told a workshop last week. Organised by Community of Democracies and the Polish foreign ministry, the May 10-14 workshop, titled Democracy lessons learned, focused on democracy, media, civil society and institutionalisation, while also sharing Polands experience transitioning from communism to democracy. The most important duty of free press is fighting corruption and nothing can from this stage [hinder] democratic process than corruption, Mr Sikorski, a former journalist, said at the opening of the workshop, held at Sedona Hotel. Journalists have particularly important role to inspect the hands of the officials. You are fourth branch of the government. You play a big role. You have to make sure that not only they [officials] pay service of reforms but actual implement, he said. In Russia in the mid 1990s, privitisation was carried out in an untransparent way. What happened to Russia politics? Most Russians became convinced that democracy is stealing, democracy is not part of the people but part of the small financial order. That is what you have to avoid at all cost for the ideal what you have fought for. Mr Sikorski, who worked as a journalist for more than 10 years, added that it was difficult to maintain the momentum of the reform process during a transition to give the people a feeling of a new beginning, a new hope and [at the same time] to maintain and control the process. We are not here to teach democracy to anybody. Democracy does not belong to us. You have made much more bigger sacrifices for the sake of democracy than those in the West who take advantage of it. The owner of the reforms are Burmese people, he added. He also touched on Polish-Myanmar economic cooperation, saying that the two countries were compatible as Myanmar has natural resources and Poland has reliable and affordable technology. We are ready to transfer it [technology] here. We dont look at just selling things. We have brought businessmen who want to build things here. We anticipate and we want to do it together, he said. I want to stress that we, Poland, as a member of European Union, we support you. We are your friend. We want to bring our business here, Mr Sikorski said. As a member of Community of Democracies, we want you to succeed because we believe that democracy on the whole works for each of us individually but also works as a system which is the method of resolving conflicts.

Business travellers to get VOA from June

BUSINESS travellers will be eligible for a 70-day visa on arrival at Yangon International Airport from June 1 and the program could be expanded to all travellers later this year, the Minister for Immigration and Population announced last week. The visa will cost US$40. Full rules and regulations will be announced soon on the ministrys website but it will be open to business travellers of all nationalities, Union Minister U Khin Yi said at a meeting in Nay Pyi Taw on April 29. For the first step, we will allow visa on arrival for business travellers. And we will try to allow visa on arrival for all types for the coming tour season, U Khin Yi said. He said the ministry would check that businesspeople who applied for a visa on arrival had clear backgrounds and were not blacklisted before allowing them to enter the country. Minister for Industry U Soe Thein said at the same meeting that the visa on arrival for businesspeople was an important step for the countrys development. Even though we are very busy this really needs to be done immediately. Ministry of Immigration and Population will take charge of it, he said. Tour agencies said that the partial introduction of visa on arrival would provide a boost to the industry. Because the hotel room rates are expensive ... we can only target businesspeople at the moment because they can afford to pay more than tourists. I appreciate this development, it is a good step, and I hope to see visa on arrival for all travellers soon, said U Thet Lwin Toe of Myanmar Voyages Travels and Tour. Yu Yu Maw and Su Hlaing Htun

Hi-Mo workers at the Labour Exchange Office in Mayangone township on May 9. Pic: Yadanar

Wig factory workers win big wage rise

By Myat May Zin WORKERS at a South Korean-owned wig factory in Hlaing Tharyar have secured a significant pay increase following a two-day strike. More than 1000 employees from the Hi-Mo factory, which is owned by a company called High-Art, staged a sit-in protest at the Labour Exchange Office in Mayangone township on May 9 and 10, refusing to return to work until 78 grievances had been addressed. At 2pm on May 10, the factory owner acquiesced to their demands, a lawyer for the workers said. The factory employs 18,000 workers and exports wigs to China, South Korea and Japan. Workers were previously paid a basic salary of K8000 but with day rates, overtime and per piece bonuses received from K35,000 to K65,000 a month, depending on the experience of the worker. Under the agreement signed last week with the factory owner they will now receive a basic salary of K30,000 a month, with a total salary of about K100,000. However, U Htay, the lawyer for the Hi-Mo workers, said it remained to be seen whether the company followed through with the terms of the settlement. They signed that they agreed to our demands but we have to look at their actions, whether they are true to their word, U Htay said. The successful strike comes about a week after 50 Hi-Mo staff had demonstrated at the Labour Exchange Office. In an effort to placate the workers, the owner boosted the salaries of about 100 people by K5000 a month on May 2. When The Myanmar Times attended the strike at the Labour Exchange Centre on May 9, the workers were receiving support in the form of food and water from a number of groups, including Generation Wave and the Myanmar Young Generation Association. We asked them to go back to their apartments to take a break and relax but they are very excited and motivated to continue their demonstration. We have to stay with them if they will continue, a spokesperson from Generation Wave told The Myanmar Times on May 10.